The Emerging Health Technologies & Innovation team (Data & Digital) invite you to our latest Health Tech Hui lunchbox session - Genomics in Healthcare
Date: 31 March 2020
Time: 12.30-1.30pm
Location: GC1&2 - Ground Floor, Ministry of Health - Wellington Office
As part of our latest Technology Advice piece - Genomics in Healthcare - we are pleased to invite you to hear from Dr Kerry Macaskill-Smith - Medical Director, Pinnacle Ventures and Professor Stephen Robertson - Curekids Professor of Paediatric Genetics, Otago University. They will be discussing the implementation of pharmacogenomics, and social license around the use of genomic data.
Dr Kerry Macaskill-Smith is the Medical Director for Pinnacle Ventures - the innovation arm for the Pinnacle Group.
Dr Macaskill-Smith provides clinical oversight for all of the Ventures projects with a special focus on implementing Pharmacogenomics in New Zealand and supporting digital health solutions like indici and Telehealth. She also works as a GP in one of NZ’s first Health Care Home sites which keeps her connected to the reality of primary care in New Zealand.
She’s passionate about systems that work well for everyone involved and believes we have to change the way we are doing things if we want to have a functioning primary care system in the future – so is excited to be helping to lead that change.
Professor Stephen Robertson has been the Curekids Professor of Paediatric Genetics at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand since 2002. He specialised in Paediatrics and then subspecialised in Clinical Genetics after training in Auckland and Melbourne. From 1999 – 2002 held a Nuffield Medical Fellowship at the Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University, studying the genetic basis of a set genetic disorders characterised by severe, life-limiting malformations in children. His work in this area has led to the implication of several genes, in the generation of malformations in children, with a particular focus on conditions that affect the skeleton and brain. He was awarded the Health Research Council’s Liley Medal for outstanding contributions to medical research in 2010, the Dunedin School of Medicine Dean’s Medal for distinction in research in 2018 and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2018.
Professor Robertson is an active clinical geneticist.
There will be an opportunity for Q&A with the presenters following.
Who should attend?Health System Improvement & Innovation (incl Primary Care)Health WorkforceData & DigitalClinical ClusterAnyone with an interest in the social license around personal data useColleagues within the health and government network (please contact the EHT team if you would like to attend)
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