NAMI Ask the Expert: Precision Medicine Research: Hope for the Future

MAY. 25, 2023

Thursday, June 15, 2023, 4:00pm - 5:30pm ET

This webinar will describe the emerging frontier of "precision medicine" — a new approach to disease treatment and prevention that considers our individual differences in lifestyle, environment and biological makeup. We will discuss how this approach can improve the understanding and treatment of mental illness. The webinar will also introduce the All of Us Research Program and opportunities to participate in this unique and potentially transformative effort to advance the future of medicine.

 

 

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Our Experts

 

Jordan Smoller HeadshotDr. Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD, Director of Center for Precision Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Jordan Smoller is the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Trustees Endowed Chair in Psychiatric Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Professor in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is Associate Chief for Research in the MGH Department of Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Precision Psychiatry, Director of the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, an Associate Member of the Broad Institute, and President of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics. He is an author of more than 500 scientific publications and is also the author of The Other Side of Normal (HarperCollins, 2012).