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Programme

Big Data and Precision Medicine [Tuesday, October 28, 2014]

Lecture Theatre 4, Cheung Kung Hai Conference Centre, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine

8:00

Registration

8:30 – 8:40

Opening Remarks / Framing Questions
Professor Peter Piot, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Video 
Big Data in Population Health and Genomic Medicine
Chairpersons: Professor Arthur S Slutsky, University of Toronto, Canada
Professor YL Lau, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, HKU

8:40 – 9:25

Big Data to Improve Population Health
Professor Prabhat Jha, University of Toronto, Canada

Video 
9:25 – 10:10 Big Data in Genomic Medicine (via video-conferencing)
Professor John P Ioannidis, Stanford School of Medicine, USA
Video 
10:10 – 10:50 What can you do with big data?
Dr Mary Schooling, The University of Hong Kong
Video 

10:50 – 11:20

Coffee Break and e-Poster Exhibition

Big Data in Cancer
Chairpersons: Professor G Steven Martin, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Professor XY Guan, Department of Clinical Oncology, HKU

11:20 – 12:05

A Systems Biology Approach for Understanding the Role of Differentiation in Cancer Progression
Professor Sylvia Plevritis, Stanford School of Medicine, USA

Video 
12:05 – 12:45 Whole-genome Sequencing and Comprehensive Molecular Profiling of Gastric Cancer
Professor Suet-yi Leung, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Video 

12:45 – 14:00

Lunch Break

Big Data in Population Health and Health Records
Chairpersons: Professor Brian D Postl, University of Manitoba, Canada
Professor Herbert HM Pang, School of Public Health, HKU

14:00 – 14:45

Big Data for Population Health
Dr Martin Landray, University of Oxford, United Kingdom


Video 
14:45 – 15:30 Big Data from Health Records
Professor Liam Smeeth, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Video 
15:30 – 16:15 Leveraging Big Data in Hospitals in the Era of Precision Medicine
Dr Muhammad Mamdani, University of Toronto, Canada
Video 

16:15 – 16:45

Coffee Break and e-Poster Exhibition

Big Data in Organ-specific Diseases
Chairpersons: Professor David Evans, University of Alberta, Canada
Professor Eric YH Chen, Department of Psychiatry, HKU

16:45 – 17:25

Unravelling the Complex Genetic Basis of Schizophrenia
Professor Pak C Sham, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Video 

17:25 – 18:10

Personalized Medicine in Kidney Transplantation
Professor Peter Nickerson, University of Manitoba, Canada

Video 

18:10 – 18:25

Closing and Prize Presentation for Best e-Posters

 
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