Overview

The annual Harvard Medical School-Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine Conference is a one and a half day gathering of representatives from academia, producers, healthcare providers, payers and regulators to explore how the personalized medicine revolution can best be put into practice. This year Personalized Medicine: A Value Proposition will consider how the growing importance of personalized medicine should encourage all stakeholders to take appropriate steps to advance its implementation. Stellar presenters and panelists will address many of the political, economic and scientific issues that bear on making personalized medicine a reality. The conference reflects a distinctive collaboration of the Harvard Medical School-Partners HealthCare Center for Genetics and Genomics and Harvard Business School. The alliance of these two renowned academic enterprises presents an exceptional opportunity to address the integrating of medicine and business in facilitating Personalized Medicine.

IT Symposium The Special Information Technology & Personalized Medicine Symposium will be a featured event taking place on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 12 prior to the main conference. This Symposium will focus on the integration of information technology and personalized medicine and the solutions that have been found to move this field forward. Those who register for the main conference may attend this Symposium at no additional charge. During registration, please check the box for "Information Technology and Personalized Medicine Symposium - Wednesday, November 12", to indicate you will be attending. If this checkbox was not available when you registered, the conference organizers will contact you to confirm your attendance at this event. Comments from 2007: Personalized Medicine: A Call for Action (Photos from previous years) 98% of those responding said they would recommend this conference to colleagues 90% said they plan to attend the conference next year "Excellent detailed information presented as well as a focus on the real issues needing to be addressed." "Terrific job. Thank you for such an excellent conference." -Carol Barash, Ph.D., Founder and Principal, Genetics, Ethics & Policy Consulting, Inc. "The... Conference was a seminal event that presented a realistic perspective and overview on the promise, the challenges, as well as the pioneering work being done to usher in the era of P/M." -Andy De, Senior Director of Industry Solutions Marketing, SAP for Life Sciences and Author, Life-Sciences and Healthcare Strategy blog at andyde.blogspot.com "This was a great meeting! It reminded me of conferences in the early days of DNA in forensics when we began to realize that it was really going to happen. Keep up the good work!" -Howard Coleman, Chief Executive Officer, Genelex Corporation