On October 14th 2015, The PMC Biosolutions Summit brought together government representatives, pharmaceutical representatives, researchers, patients, providers and payers to discuss the adoption of personalized medicine within health care systems. Attendees explored how to increase utilization and understanding of personalized…
Precise But (Not Yet) Personal
Despite great advance in the field of personalized medicine and precision care therapies, there is still a dearth of progress in clinical models that use these emerging technologies to enhance preventive medicine. Precise But (Not Yet) Personal Ralph Snyderman President…
Obama to Request Research Funding for Treatments Tailored to Patients’ DNA
President Obama is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars to develop medical treatments tailored to the individual. Dr Snyderman offers his insight in the following NYTimes article regarding this precision medicine initiative. President Obama will seek hundreds of millions of…
Your Annualized Personalized Health Check-up
In a January 10, 2015 editorial in the NewYork Times, Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel derides the annual physical exam as a multi-billion dollar waste of time. The exam in current practice is indeed ineffective in preventing disease and reflects the inadequacy…
Reward good outcomes to reduce health care costs
The following editorial appeared in the Raleigh News & Observer on January 25, 2014. The contentious debate on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act has focused on health care choice, cost, access and, most recently, the too-low percentage of…
Industry Voices: Inside Genomics–Q&A with Bina CEO Narges Bani Asadi and Dr. Ralph Snyderman
By Narges Bani Asadi Published on FierceBiotech (http://www.fiercebiotech.com) January 24, 2014 One of the elements lacking in the personalized medicine discussion today is the perspective of leading clinicians, informaticists and academics working in the field. To remedy the gap, I’ve…
Ten Years into Personalized Medicine: What We’ve Learned and What’s Next
Originally posted on Healthcommentary.org on January 17, 2014 Ten years ago, the sequencing of the entire human genome, along with the development of aggregate “omics” technologies began giving rise to a fundamentally new capability for the practice of medicine –…
Dr. Ralph Snyderman Wins AAMC David E. Rogers Award
Dr. Ralph Snyderman will be awarded the AAMC’s David E. Rogers Award on Saturday evening, November 3, 2012, in San Francisco. The winners of this year’s awards were announced by the AAMC yesterday. The Roger’s Award is based on a…
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Personalized Health Care: Science Provides Solutions
My interest in personalized health care began approximately a dozen years ago when as Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University, I realized that emerging sciences and technologies were creating medical capabilities never before known. Through the power of genomics,…
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