Panel: How will citizen scientists impact medicine? (Health Journalism 2012)
Speaker: Barry Silverman, M.D., Mark Silverman chair of cardiac education, the Piedmont Heart Institute.
Panel description: Medical research continues to be carried out by academics and pharmaceutical companies. But growing numbers of ordinary people are taking their health into their own hands. These selfdescribed citizen scientists share medical histories with one another, post test results online and even run experiments – sometimes in conjunction with doctors. This session will explore the motivations behind this patient-led movement and its impact on clinical research.
