Bridging biology, ‘omics, statistics and epidemiology in the era of precision medicine

Join us at this two-day conference, presented by McMaster University and Cisco Canada on May 28-29, 2018 at McMaster University in the Michael G DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery or in the Cisco online classroom.

You’ll learn the promise and pitfalls of publicly available data in the era of genomics, metabolomics, microbiomics, and phenomics, as applied to human health and precision medicine.

Keynote Speakers

Hertzel Gerstein
Professor of Medicine, McMaster University

Alfonso Iorio
Professor of Health Research Methodology, McMaster University

Host Speakers

Sonia Anand 
Professor, Department of Medicine

Guillaume Paré 
Associate Professor, Pathology and Molecular Medicine 

Joseph Beyene 
Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

David Meyre 
Associate Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Zena Samaan
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences

Russell de Souza
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

 

Guest Speakers

Laura Banfield
McMaster Health Sciences Library

Phil Britz-McKibbin
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Biology

Lisa Schwartz
Associate Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact

Jennifer Stearns
Assistant Professor, Farncombe Family Digestive Healthy Research Institute, Department of Medicine

Location

McMaster University in the Michael G DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery
1280 Main St W,
Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1