Personalised Medicine for Paediatricians: The Essentials

Personalised Medicine for Paediatricians: The Essentials is organized by Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for Children NHS Foundation Trust and will be held on Nov 23, 2023.

Description:
This package of five pre-recorded lectures covers the essentials of personalised medicine in paediatrics. Delivered by the GOSH Clinical Genetics Service, you will learn how to use genomic information to support and inform personalised paediatric care. The lectures included are:

1. Genetic testing and introduction to variant interpretation (c40 minutes)

• Who to test? When to test? How to test? Understanding genomic results and how they impact management
• Dr Emma Clement, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, GOSH
• Dr Wendy Jones, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, GOSH

2. Personalised Medicine: General scope (c40 minutes)

• Dr Tazeen Ashraf, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, GOSH
• Dr Lara Menzies, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, GOSH

3. Personalised Medicine: Therapeutics (c40 minutes)

• Case studies in paediatric personalised medicine therapeutics including gene therapies
• Dr Elizabeth Forsythe, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, GST
• Professor Mina Ryten, Clinical Professor & Consultant Clinical Geneticist, UCL

4. Whole genome sequencing in newborns (c15 minutes)

• Dr Richard Scott, Chief Medical Officer and Deputy CEO, Genomics England, Consultant & Honorary Senior Lecturer, GOSH/UCL

5. Consent and ethics in Personalised Medicine (c30 minutes)

• Dr Shereen Tadros, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, GOSH