Plenary session

15.00 - 16.45 hrs

Personalized Medicine for Health and Prevention

Personalized Medicine (PM) aims to provide an adequate and desirable response to diversity; to differences among people rather than similarities. In our vision, it is more than genetic or otherwise technical tailoring of a certain treatment to an individual. In personalized medicine, ideally all person-related aspects are taken into account by health care professional(s) at different stages of care.

At the Spring Meeting we will have two outstanding speakers who have long been working in the field of PM. They will focus on different aspects of PM. Professor Harald Schmidt from Maastricht University will speak about the end of medicine as we know it, and Professor Paolo Villari from the University of Rome, will speak about PM from a health technology assessment perspective.

In the last part of the plenary session, facilitated by our Junior Council, there will be an opportunity for PhDs and PostDocs from the PM research program to present their work and international ambitions in the form of a Pecha Kucha. The best Pecha Kucha will be awarded a travel grant, to spend on a conference or work visit. More information about the submission and pre-selection will follow soon.