SPOKANE – Transforming healthcare from a reactive system to a preventive, personalized and participatory one will be the topic of a seminar presented 4-5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, at WSU’s Riverpoint Campus.
Dr. Fred Lee, president and CEO of the P4 Medicine Institute, will present the free, public lecture “P4 Medicine: Healthcare of the Future and Implications for Health Professionals” in Spokane Academic Center 20.
Lee will discuss the coming era of healthcare that predicts and prevents disease as well as tailors diagnosis and therapy to the individual. He will discuss how healthcare professionals will examine their patients’ unique biology to assess their probability of developing various diseases and how this will help healthcare professionals design appropriate treatments – even before the onset of disease. Finally, he will discuss how medicine of the future will use more sophisticated measurements, and more measurements overall, to yield accurate health assessments for truly personalized treatments.
The P4 Medicine Institute is an innovation consortium whose mission is to lead the emergence and adoption of healthcare of the future. P4MI works to revolutionize healthcare from a reactive state to one that delivers care of higher quality, increased satisfaction and lower cost by applying systems biology and systems theory to medicine and care delivery. The results lead to healthcare that predicts and prevents illness, focuses on health and wellness, and considers the consumer to be the central figure in care.
This seminar is sponsored by WSU Spokane as part of the Biomedical Sciences Informational Conference to promote the national affiliation relationship with Project Lead The Way. For more information, visit http://spokane.wsu.edu/researchoutreach/pltw/.