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Ramin Khorasani
The idea of health care being as customized as your coffee order at Starbucks is not just wishful thinking anymore. Knowledge about the intricate inter-dependencies between the biological components of a disease is on the rise, and the outpour of information is guiding diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic strategies that are tailored for each patient. This precision and network medicine approach is taking us beyond the age of traditional black and white clinical decision-making to an era of precise disease prevention, prediction and treatment around specific individuals. In this panel, Medicine Chair Joe Loscalzo, MD, PhD, asked Pathology's Jeffrey Golden, MD, Radiology's Ramin Khorasani, MD, MPH, Genetics' Richard Maas, MD, PhD, and the Channing Division of Network Medicine's Ed Silverman, MD, PhD, for their disciplines' definitions and applications of precision medicine. "Precision medicine is all about discovery," said Khorasani. "We are living in an ocean of data." BWH researchers are working with technology to gather and present data in an intelligent and informative way, which in turn can help clinicians improve patient care.