Patients are People, not Populations
This is my first blog post for my first blog, one that will be devoted to championing the personalized medicine approach to 21st century healthcare. What is "personalized medicine" (PM)? Definitions...
View Article20 personalized medicine thought leaders to follow on Twitter .. and more!
Brandon Glenn (@mcn_bglenn) of MedCity News posted this article yesterday: 20 personalized medicine thought leaders to follow on Twitter. I am truly honored to be included among the list of...
View ArticlePM: Advancing from Elective to Core Curriculum
Upstate Medical University is currently revising its undergraduate medical curriculum to keep pace with the rapid changes that have occurred in healthcare over the past couple decades. Like many U.S....
View ArticleA "comprehensivist" role in healthcare: time for a formal medical specialty...
Maybe you already read this June, 2012 JAMA article by Tinetti et al., entitled "Designing Health Care for the Most Common Chronic Condition - Multimorbidity". I tweeted about it when it was first...
View ArticleRA Genetics 101: Glass half-full or half-empty? Part 4
The following is part of a guest post series on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) genetics for patients as well as practicing physicians, number 4 in a series of blog posts initiated in the summer of 2011 at...
View ArticleTwitter and the World of Personalized Medicine
As part of my role on the Advisory Board of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, I provided a ~ 400-word essay for the following book, newly-released in 2012: You can learn more about the book at...
View ArticleWE ARE CHARGED WITH PREPARING OUR MEDICAL STUDENTS TO BE LEADERS IN THEIR...
The following is a guest post by an academic colleague and social media buddy of mine, Kaylan A. Baban, MD MPH, who is a new Course Director at Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, as well as a...
View ArticlePanel recommends changing name of common disorder in women
NIH News posted this release today which describes a specially-convened NIH panel to change the "name of a common hormone disorder in women, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)". You see, the disease...
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