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Genome-directed cancer therapy holds great promise for the future of cancer treatment; however, however many challenges remain.  This talk will review the informatics challenges and solutions related to the Vanderbilt Personalized Cancer Medicine Initiative.  Dr. Mia Levy will present Vanderbilt’s initial solution including how tumor gene-mutation testing results were integrated into the electronic health record with a link to a decision-support knowledge service to assist providers in understanding actionable gene-directed therapies including local and national clinical trials.  The resource, called “My Cancer Genome,” is now publicly available at MyCancerGenome.org. Dr. Levy will describe the development and maintenance of this application including the annotation of the National Cancer Institute PDQ clinical trial registry with gene associations.  

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Dr. Levy’s research interests include biomedical informatics methods to support the continuum of cancer care and cancer research. Current research projects include informatics methods for 1) image-based cancer treatment response assessment using quantitative imaging; 2) clinical decision support for treatment prioritization of molecular subtypes of cancer; 3) protocol-based plan management; and 4) learning cancer systems.  Dr. Levy is also a practicing oncologist specializing in the treatment of breast cancer.  She received her M.D. from Rush University and her Ph.D. in biomedical informatics from Stanford University. 

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Topic: Informatics to Support Genome-Directed Cancer Medicine

Speaker: Mia A. Levy, Ph.D.

Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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