Precision Medicine and the Reinvention of Human Disease

Informationen zum Autor Jules Berman holds two Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT (in Mathematics and in Earth and Planetary Sciences), a PhD from Temple University, and an MD from the University of Miami. He was a graduate researcher at the Fels Cancer Research Institute (Temple University) and at the American Health Foundation in Valhalla, New York. He completed his postdoctoral studies at the US National Institutes of Health, and his residency at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC. Dr. Berman served as Chief of anatomic pathology, surgical pathology, and cytopathology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, where he held joint appointments at the University of Maryland Medical Center and at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. In 1998, he transferred to the US National Institutes of Health as a Medical Officer and as the Program Director for Pathology Informatics in the Cancer Diagnosis Program at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Berman is a past President of the Association for Pathology Informatics and is the 2011 recipient of the Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a listed author of more than 200 scientific publications and has written more than a dozen books in his three areas of expertise: informatics, computer programming, and pathology. Dr. Berman is currently a freelance writer.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Seriously, What is Precision Medicine? 2. Redefining Disease Causality 3. Genetics: Clues, Not Answers, to the Mysteries of Precision Medicine 4. Disease Convergence 5. The Precision of the Rare Diseases 6. Precision Organisms 7. Reinventing Diagnosis 8. Precision Data 9. Impersonalized Precision Medicine 10. The Alternate Futures of Precision Medicine

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jules J Berman, Jules J (Freelance author with expertise in informatics Berman, Jules J. Berman, Jules J. (Freelance author with expertise in informatics Berman, Jules J. (Ph. D. Berman, Jules J. (Ph.d. Berman, Berman Jules J.
• Verlag: Academic Press London
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9780128143933
• ISBN: 978-0-12-814393-3
• Seiten: 400
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Klinische Fächer; MEDICAL / Biotechnology, biotechnology, Personal & public health, Diseases & disorders, Diseases and disorders, Personal and public health / health education, Biotechnology Industries