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Maurice Bloch Seminar: Putting people (back) into Personalised Medicine
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Yudowitz seminar room
Wolfson Medical Building University Avenue G12 8QQ United KingdomDescription
We are pleased to invite you to:The Institute of Health and Wellbeing Maurice Bloch Annual Lecture Series 2016/17
Title: Putting people (back) into Personalised Medicine
Presenter: Professor Cathy Pope
Date: Monday 6 February 2017
Time: 1pm lunch will be served 30mins beforehand
Venue: Yudowitz seminar room, Wolfson Medical Building
Chair: Professor Kate O'Donnell/Professor Frances Mair
Abstract:
This paper picks up on ideas surfaced in our recent Lancet Respiratory editorial (Britten, Pope, Halford, Richeldi 2016) about stratified medicine. This innovation - given various names, including 'precision' and 'personalised', and 'patient-centred' medicine - is the targeting of medicines and other interventions according to the biological characteristics of subgroups of patients. Such targeting is seen as offering the chance to revolutionise health interventions. However, much of the debate, and the science, in this space thus far has had a very narrow focus on biomedical and genetic contributions. Here I suggest that we need to take broader, more sociologically informed, view and one that puts patient experience and needs at its centre.
Biography
Catherine Pope is Professor of Medical Sociology in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton where she leads Emergency and Urgent Care (EmU) research and is a member of the NIHR CLAHRC Wessex. Her research focuses on healthcare work and the organisation and delivery of health services. She is currently a researcher-in-residence in the Wessex regional trauma centre, and is working on a Health Foundation funded project on patient centred emergency care. Catherine has played a leading role in developing qualitative methods and evidence synthesis in health services research.