2014-2015

Should We Offer Genomic Results to a Research Participant’s Family, Including After Death?

If researchers discovered a member of your family has a gene that increases risk of some types of cancer, would you want to know? If you learned you have such a gene, would you want it revealed to your relatives? These real-world dilemmas pit personal privacy against the health concerns of family members. And the explosion of research on genomics – sometimes looking at a research participant’s entire genome and identifying many gene variants of concern – makes this a pressing problem.

Integrating Electronic Health Records and Genomics for Discovery and Implementation: The eMERGE Experience

Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 11:30am to 1:00pm

Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union

Dr. Chisholm presented genomic medicine discovery and implementation projects based on the NUgene biobank that is linked to the Northwestern Medicine Electronic Health Records (EHR) system. He discussed data-mining of EHRs to develop phenotypes and the experience of the eMERGE Network in sharing phenotypes and in implementing decision support for genomic medicine and pharmacogenomics.

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A Public Health Approach for Fulfilling the Promise of Genomics to Improve Health: Or, When Should We All Have Our Genomes Sequenced?

Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 11:30am to 1:00pm

Best Buy Theater, Northrop Auditorium

Fulfilling the promise of genomics in improving health requires a population perspective to complement the “bench to bedside” model of clinical translation. An expanded multidisciplinary research agenda is needed to understand the benefits, costs, and harms of genomics in health care and disease prevention (beyond bench to bedside) in the larger context of social and environmental determinants of disease.

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