Recent Advances in Systems and Network Medicine: Meeting Report from the First International Conference in Systems and Network Medicine.

Emma Kurnat-Thoma,Sylvia Trujillo,Bakul Patel,Amrita K Cheema,Joseph Loscalzo,Robert Jarrin,Damjana Rozman,Jessica Skopac,Christian Pristipino,Dennis K Mcbride,Maricel G Kann,Jonathon Keeney,William B Rouse,Nikolaus Schultz,Elia Brodsky,Douglas B Fridsma,Edwin K Silverman,Ancha Baranova,Shuchismita Dutta,Pat Baird,Kapil Parakh,Atul J Butte,Bradley A Maron,Alif Saleh,Feixiong Cheng,Maeve Mckean,Bruce J West,Tavpritesh Sethi,James Giordano,Sona Vasudevan,Christina Grant,Timothy R D J Radstake ,Anne Pariser ,Seong Ki Mun ,James Valentine ,Harsha Rajasimha ,James C Palmer,Harald Schmidt ,İgor Svab ,Dinesh Verma,Guruprasad Madhavan ,Anke H Maitland‐Van Der Zee

doi:10.1089/sysm.2020.0001

Abstract

The First International Conference in Systems and Network Medicine gathered together 200 global thought leaders, scientists, clinicians, academicians, industry and government experts, medical and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and policymakers. Held at Georgetown University Conference Center in Washington D.C. on September 11–13, 2019, the event featured a day of pre-conference lectures and hands-on bioinformatic computational workshops followed by two days of deep and diverse scientific talks, panel discussions with eminent thought leaders, and scientific poster presentations. Topics ranged from: Systems and Network Medicine in Clinical Practice; the role of -omics technologies in Health Care; the role of Education and Ethics in Clinical Practice, Systems Thinking, and Rare Diseases; and the role of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. The conference served as a unique nexus for interdisciplinary discovery and dialogue and fostered formation of new insights and possibilities for health care systems advances.

Highlights

The First International Conference in Systems and Network Medicine was held at Georgetown University’s Conference Center from September 11 to 13, 2019
The goal of this article is to summarize the key highlights from the conference that brought together close to 200 attendees that included global thought leaders, scientists, clinicians, academicians, industry and government experts, medical and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and policymakers
Day 3: Plenary Talks, Keynote Addresses, Panel Discussions, and Session Talks Plenary session 2, address 1: ‘‘Systems thinking and the U.S population health ecosystem’’ William Rouse, PhD, from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, gave the plenary talk on the concluding day. He discussed the fragmentation in the U.S population health delivery systems and presented key challenges facing U.S health care system, including substance abuse and the opioid epidemic, and the oncoming volume and complex health management needs of aging of baby boomers

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Recent Advances in Systems and Network Medicine: Meeting Report from the First International Conference in Systems and Network Medicine. Departments of 11Neurology and 12Biochemistry, Neuroethics Studies Program-Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, and O’Neill-Pellegrino Program in Brain Sciences and Global Law and Policy, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia.

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