Personalizing Precision Medicine. A Global Voyage from Vision to Reality

Pothier, K.

1ª Edition October 2017

English

ISBN 9781118792124

Publisher WILEY

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Description

The author uses decades of experience and interviews with experts in precision medicine to explain past, present, and future of precision medicine. She reviews the full continuum of personalizing precision medicine, including diagnostics, therapeutics, big data, supportive care, regulation, and reimbursement and innovation in precision medicine worldwide.

Combines a unique cross section of history, current technologies, and future directions for how precision medicine has and will affect people worldwide
Reviews precision medicine around the world, including the US, China, Japan, the Middle East, India, Europe, and Latin America
Discusses a number of diseases areas – cancer, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, infectious disease, pain, immunology, rare diseases
Includes information and quotes from over 100 interviews with key industry experts in biotech, pharma, informatics, diagnostics, health providers, advocacy groups, and more.
Includes stories illustrating current issues and future promises in precision medicine for a human touch

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Methodology
About the Author

Part 1: The History

Chapter 1: The Right Drug, the Right Patient, the Right Time: Foundations of Precision Medicine

Chapter 2: Decision Making Machines: Diagnostics in Precision Medicine

Chapter 3: Precision Medicine Around the World: Europe

Part 2: The Present

Chapter 4: Our Reality Today: The Patient Journey in Precision Medicine

Chapter 5: Toward the Day We Just Call It "Medicine": Access to Precision Medicine

Chapter 6: Precision Medicine Around the World: Japan

Chapter 7: Shifting Rules: Regulatory and Reimbursement

Chapter 8: Precision Medicine Around the World: Latin America

Chapter 9: Patients as the Poorest Princesses: Supportive Care

Chapter 10: Informatics Under the Hood: Data in Precision Medicine

Chapter 11: Precision Medicine Around the World: India

Part 3: The Future

Chapter 12: A Personalized Stomach: Precision Medicine beyond Cancer

Chapter 13: Consumer is King: Consumer Applications of Precision Medicine

Chapter 14: Precision Medicine Around the World: The Middle East

Chapter 15: Sci-Fi Potential: CRISPR as the Next Novel Frontier in Precision Medicine

Chapter 16: Precision Medicine Around the World: China

Chapter 17: A New Hope: The Future of Precision Medicine

Afterword

Index

Author Information

Kristin Ciriello Pothier is the Global Head of Life Sciences for the Parthenon-EY practice of Ernst & Young LLP. She has over 20 years of experience in management consulting and research in the life sciences industry. She is a noted speaker, workshop leader, and writer in life sciences. She is also a clinical laboratory and medical innovation expert, helping develop product and service strategies worldwide for investors, corporations, and medical institutions. Prior to EY, Kristin was a partner at a healthcare consulting company and a research scientist and diagnostics developer at two biopharmaceutical companies. She earned an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from Smith College and a graduate degree in Epidemiology, Health Management, and Maternal and Child Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and their two lively children.