Careers in Precision Health: Facts and Snacks
Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives/NeuroSphere and / have come together to offer graduate students a series of two seminars dedicated to precision health and professional development.
Speakers from both industry and academia will share their experience and provide insights on the different ways precision medicine is applied in various fields. They will discuss their own professional paths and offer different career-development perspectives on precision health and medicine. The presentations will be followed by Q&A and networking sessions with the guest speaker(s).
Seminar 2—December 8, 2022
Speakers:
—Senior Manager, Personalize my Treatment Initiative, Exactis Innovation
Ruth Sapir Pitchhadze—Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
—Medical Advisor for Mental Health at Boehringer Ingelheim, Canada
The presentation will:
- Summarize the defining characteristics of precision medicine, including how it facilitates new health solutions.
- Identify the range of tools and methods applied in developing precision-medicine solutions.
- Evaluate the different applications of precision medicine.
- Indicate the different roles that exist to support the development of precision-medicine solutions (i.e., show how individuals with different backgrounds—engineering, computer science, biomedical science, psychology, etc.—can find jobs in the field).
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RI-MUHC Contact Information
Contact: Emily Bell
Organization: Desjardins Center for Advanced Training (DCAT)
Email: emily.bell [at] mcgill.ca
