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This year’s Medical-Legal Partnership Summit, headlined by keynote speaker Dr. Jeff Brenner from the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, will host leaders and practitioners from the public and private sectors for a national conversation about how to integrate health and legal services to better address the social determinants of health.
Many diseases do not have a proven means of prevention or effective treatments. President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) announced in January 2015 hopes to remedy that by finding new treatments using the PMI medical model that proposes a customization of healthcare, with medical decisions, practices, and/or products being tailored to the individual patient’s genetic makeup and other patient-specific factors. This conference discusses the emerging legal challenges of transitioning the practice of health care to the PMI model.
The Summit is aimed at evaluating the role of genomics, social and environmental determinants, ”‹and d”‹ata ”‹science ”‹on health disparities ”‹research.
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