Careers in Precision Health: Facts and Snacks

Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives/NeuroSphere and The Desjardins Centre for Advanced Training/RI-MUHC have come together to offer graduate students a series of two seminars dedicated to precision health and professional development.

Speakers from both industry and academia will share their experience and provide insights on the different ways precision medicine is applied in various fields. They will discuss their own professional paths and offer different career-development perspectives on precision health and medicine. The presentations will be followed by Q&A and networking sessions with the guest speaker(s).

Seminar 1—November 24, 2022

Speaker: Vincent Mooser, MD—Canada Excellence Research Chair in Genomic Medicine and Professor in the Department of Human Genetics at McGill

The presentation will:

• Summarize the defining characteristics of precision medicine, including how it facilitates new health solutions.
• Identify the range of tools and methods applied in developing precision-medicine solutions.
• Evaluate the different applications of precision medicine.
• Indicate the different roles that exist to support the development of precision-medicine solutions (i.e., show how individuals with different backgrounds—engineering, computer science, biomedical science, psychology, etc.—can find jobs in the field).

Check out the next seminar in this series on December 8, 2022!