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Ottawa Marriott Hotel

30 oct 2018 7:00 a.m. - 31 oct 2018 3:00 p.m.

100 Kent Street , Ottawa, ON K1P5R7 , CANADA

DIA Annual Canadian Meeting

Transformation with Collaboration

Session 5: Track B: Responsible On-Boarding of Precision Medicine: Why Bytes and Spit Aren’t Enough

Session Chair(s)

Andrew  Atkinson

Andrew Atkinson

Manager, Emerging Sciences Policy

Health Canada, Canada

Scientific advances are expanding the potential for personalized medicine to improve healthcare for Canadians. Equally, these developments could draw resources away from critical care in other healthcare sectors. In this session, the responsible introduction of personalized medicine will be explored including opportunities for cost savings, as well as mitigating the economic impacts of high cost treatments.

Speaker(s)

Wendy  Ungar, PhD, MSc

Health Technology Assessment for Reimbursement of Emerging Precision Medicine Technologies

Wendy Ungar, PhD, MSc

The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Canada

Senior Scientist

Michael  Duong

Personalized Healthcare: Unlocking the Data – Are We Ready?

Michael Duong

Hoffmann-La Roche Limited, Canada

Director, Evidence Generation, Medical Affairs

Kathleen  Hodgkinson

Rated P/G: The Importance of Phenotype in a World of Genomic Data

Kathleen Hodgkinson

Memorial University, Canada

Associate Professor of Medicine

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