NEWS FROM THE NETWORK: ISSUE 3 (2017)

 The Precision Medicine Policy Network is planning workshops for the coming year! See featured below: Theme 3 (Knowledge Transfer and Implementation), as well as a list of upcoming Network workshops and activities. 

Just released: Nature commentary, co-authored by Network PI, Professor Christopher McCabe: Show drugs work before selling them.

Newsletter Feature
THEME 3: KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND IMPLEMENTATION
Theme leads: Drs Brenda Wilson and Kristine Votova

The Network's Theme 3 is holding two workshops in the coming months to promote evidence based approaches to implementation and knowledge translation of personalized health interventions. Workshops will be open to those interested in downstream questions of effective implementation and developing out strategies for sustainability and scaling up. Participants will include:

-  investigators with the current Genomics and Personalized Health (GAPH) projects
- applicants to the current Genome Canada GAPH LSARP competition
- others working in the ‘omics field
- key stakeholders 

Workshop 1. Focus on: Implementation science for precision medicine and personalized health (June 2017, date TBA)

Workshop Goals:
1. Introduce implementation science to the GAPH/LSARP science audience, drawing on examples from other fields
2. Highlight the importance of clinical utility, generalizability, and scalability in selection of implementation approaches
3. Emphasize the linkage between discovery and translational research, evaluation of clinical utility,  economic evaluation, and implementation science

Workshop 2. Focus on: Stakeholder engagement in KT and implementation science for personalized health (Fall 2017, data tbc)

Workshop Goals: Bring together ‘omics science researchers, health services and policy researchers, and representatives of key stakeholder organizations to identify when, how, and why it is important to work with stakeholders and end-users when planning implementation and KT activities.

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

May 28-June 2, 2017: COURSE
Cost-effectiveness modeling course

May 24-26: CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 
      Theme 1: Research Ethics Review
Presentations as the 28th Annual Canadian Bioethics Society Conference

June 28 & 29, 2017: WORKSHOP
Theme 4: IP & Commercialization
Risk-sharing Models to Advance Payer Paradigms for Precision Medicines

June 2017 (TBA): WORKSHOP
Theme 3: Knowledge Transfer & Implementation
Implementation science for precision medicine and personalized health

October 2017 (TBA): WORKSHOP
Theme 2: Health economics and HTA​
Incorporating uncertainty into economic evaluations of Precision Medicine technologies

Fall 2017 (TBA): WORKSHOP
Theme 4: IP & Commercialization
Data Access / Data Integration

Fall 2017 (TBA): WORKSHOP
Theme 3: Knowledge Transfer & Implementation
Stakeholder engagement in KT and implementation science for personalized health

Thank-you to Dr. Michael Wolfson for his work as Lead for the Network's
Theme 2: Economic Economics and HTA. Happy Retirement!

Theme work will continue under the leadership of Dr. Christopher McCabe.

THANK-YOU TO OUR CO-FUNDERS

Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta
CADTH
School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa
Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP), McGill University
ALMDx, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Alberta
BC Cancer Agency
Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control
CRIO Ocular Gene Therapy Team
Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval


More to follow...

The Precision Medicine Policy Network is supported and funded by
Genome Canada, Genome Alberta, and Genome Quebec.