15th Dartmouth Community Medical School Series Gets Personal
February 14, 2012
Hanover, NH
William R. Green, PhD
The Dartmouth Community Medical School (DCMS) this spring will explore the shift of health care treatment toward personalized care.
Leading the 15th annual series of discussions of the current and future state of medicine - "It's Personal: Medicine's Evolution Away from One Size Fits All" - will be Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) clinician-researchers in organ transplantation and immunology, palliative care, genetics, cancer, cardiovascular disease, pharmacology and toxicology, and electronic medical records. The weekly sessions, open to the public, will take place on Wednesday nights from 7 to 9, between March 21 and April 25, at the medical school's Kellogg Auditorium.
"This exciting and very timely series of topics should stimulate a lively dialogue between the community and our expert faculty and clinicians at Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC)," says DCMS faculty director William R. Green, PhD, chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at DMS. "The unprecedented acquisition of new knowledge from the research labs and the clinical arena over the last several years has profoundly changed how we think about treating patients. And the explosion of information at the level of the individual has generated major, controversial challenges in the way we handle these vast amounts of data and choose treatments based on personal versus population patient effectiveness - all in the context of maintaining affordability, patient confidentiality, and the doctor-patient relationship."
The 2012 lineup includes:
March 21 - Personalized Medicine: Understanding the biological basis for individualized treatments
March 28 - Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease: New tools for creating personalized therapies
April 4 - It's Always Been Up Close and Personal: The world of organ transplants and immune rejection
April 11 - Personalized Prescriptions: Using pharmacogenomics to better treat disease
April 18 - Personal Electronic Medical Records: Creating access, ensuring security
April 25 - The Doctor-Patient Relationship: Keeping it personal
All sessions will take place in Kellogg Auditorium at DMS. The registration fee of $30 covers all six sessions.
DCMS will reprise this series during September and October of 2012, in southern New Hampshire; details of that series will be announced this summer.
Since its launch in 1998, DCMS has been filling the seats for its programs on contemporary health and medical issues. The courses are open to all, regardless of background or experience. All participants receive a syllabus with lecture notes, supplemental materials, and suggested reading, as well as a certificate of completion.
For more information about the 2012 Dartmouth Community Medical School, visit the DCMS website, call Deborah Winslow at (603) 653-0771, or send email to dartmouth.community.medical.school@dartmouth.edu.
For more information contact David Corriveau at (603) 653-1978.
