Education

Seminars

This section contains educational materials on clinical genomics for physicians and other healthcare practitioners. They were developed by BCCGN to help prepare health professionals to deal with genomics technologies as they come into clinical practice. Click on the links below to watch the lectures

CLINICAL GENOMICS THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

Proceedings of 2012 Conference - Summary

Using Humor and Storytelling to Help Rewrite Our Genetic Code, Tania Katan		Microarrays and Findings of Uncertain Significance, Dr. Christine Tyson
BCCGN and Personalized Medicine - Our Mandate, Our Successes and Our Learnings, Dr. Michael Hayden		Is High Throughput Sequencing Ready for the Clinic?, Dr. Anna Lehman
Personal Account of Direct To Consumer (DTC) Testing, Stefan Rolando		Clinical Application of Genomics in Cancer, Dr. David Huntsman
5 Things About Genomic Testing Over the Internet that you Need to Know as a Family Physician, Dr. Tanya Nelson		Can Sequencing Help Treat Dying Children?, Dr. Jacob Rozmus
Personal account of DTC Testing, Dr. Rosie Redfield		Ethnic Diversity and Pharmaco-genomics, Dr. Liam Brunham

Clinical Genomics: What You Need to Know.

Proceedings of February 24th 2012 Vancouver Island Conference

Genomics: Today and Tomorrow’s Medicine; Jan Friedman		Genetics of Healthy Aging; Angie Brooks-Wilson
Riding the TIDE: Innovating the Diagnostic Approach to Treatable Intellectual Disabilities; Clara van Karnebeek		Diagnostic Dilemmas: Solving Clinical Problems with Chromosomal Microarray; Patrick Macleod, Gudrun Aubertin, Michelle Steinraths& Patrice Eydoux
Genomics and Sudden Arrhythmic Death: Is Your Practice Ready? Laura Arbour

GENOMIC MEDICINE IN 2015

Proceedings of 2011 Conference - Summary

Keynote Address - Life with my sweet son Becket who happens to have an extra chromosome, with Tamara Taggart		Advances in Human Genetics - What You Need to Know
Hope or Hype - Pharmacogenomics to Improve the Safe Use of Drugs		Genomics in the Digital Era- a Tool Towards Treatment
Healthcare Unwired - Wireless Health Unlocks the Promise of Personalized Medicine		Debate Resolution - Physicians Should Determine the Nature and Extent of Whole Genome Testing Results Conveyed to Patients
Genetic and Genomic Testing - for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy		Personalized Medicine - Value for Money?
Genomic Medicine and the Clinic - Ethical Implications		Watch the full day's events

GenOMICS Today and Tomorrows Medicine

Proceedings of 2010 Conference - Summary

Pharmacogenomics - in HIV		Personal Story - Child with an Unknown Genetic Disorder
Neurogenomics - in Intellectual Disability		Sequencing - technology update and clinical utility
Nutrigenomics - in Common Diseases		Direct-to-Consumer Testing - Debate on Pros and Cons
Personalized Medicine - Barriers to Implementation in Clinical Practice		Parental Perspectives - Diagnosis of Intellectual Disability
MetagenOMICS - an approach to infectious agent discovery in cancer

The Impact of Genomics in the Clinic

Proceedings of 2009 Conference - Summary

High Throughput Genotyping - in Oncology		Personalized Medicine - Hope or Hype
High Throughput Sequencing - in Intellectual Disability		Epigenetics - Impact on Health and Disease
High Resolution Detection of Copy Number Variation - in Diabetes		Genetic Information - Issues in using it in Clinical Practice

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