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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Ginsburg is the founding Director of the Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine in the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. He is also Professor of Medicine and of Pathology at Duke University Medical Center, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke Pratt School of Engineering, and Co-Director of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute. Huntington Willard is on the faculty of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. Prior to this appointment, Willard was the President and Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. He was previously on the faculty at Duke University, where he was founding director of the university-wide Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy from 2003 to 2014, the Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences, and the Arts & Sciences Professor of Biology & Genome Sciences. Dr. David is a family doctor and physician scientist interested in translational research to improve preventive health and public health strategies to improve population health. One of the major areas where genomic and personalized medicine is most active is in the realm of the primary care practitioner. Risk assessment, family history, personal genomics, and pharmacogenomics are becoming increasingly important to the PCP and their patients. Readers will find Genomic and Precision Medicine: Primary Care to be an invaluable resource for the state of the art tools and technologies as well as policy issues that are required to fully realize personalized health care in the area of primary care.
List of contents
1. Genomic Medicine in Primary Care
2. Overview of Policy, Ethical, and Social Considerations in Genomic and Personalized Medicine
3. Educational Issues and Strategies for Genomic Medicine
4. Genetic Testing for Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases
5. Health Risk Assessments, Family Health History, and Predictive Genetic/Pharmacogenetic Testing
6. Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics
7. Hypertension
8. Coronary Artery Disease and Myocardial Infarction
9. Lung Cancer
10. Breast Cancer
11. Colorectal Cancer
12. Prostate Cancer
13. Asthma
14. Diabetes
15. Metabolic Syndrome
16. Autism Spectrum Disorder
17. Viral Hepatitis
