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Economic Evaluation in Genomic Medicine introduces health economics and economic evaluation to genomic clinicians and researchers, while also introducing the topic to health economists. Each chapter includes an executive summary, questions, and case studies, along with supplementary online materials, including process guides, maps, flow charts, diagrams, and economic evaluation spreadsheets to enhance the learning process. The text can easily be used as course material for related graduate and undergraduate courses, providing a succinct overview of the existing, state-of-the-art application of economic evaluation to genomic healthcare and precision medicine.

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.. .provides a useful introduction to health economics for non-specialists interested in how it can be applied to genomics, and the relevance of this on policy, reimbursement, and availability of diagnostics and related therapies. --<b>European Journal of Human Genetics, <i>Economic Evaluation in Genomic Medicine</i></b></p>

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Christina Mitropoulou is Managing Director and Principal Investigator at the Golden Helix Foundation (London, UK), a registered UK-Charity with Research and Educational activities in the field of Genomic and Personalized Medicine. Her research interests revolve around the health economic evaluation of genome-guided therapeutic interventions. Also, Christina Mitropoulou participates as Executive Committee member of the Ubiquitous Pharmacogenomics (U-PGx) project and coordinates the health economic evaluation of the PREPARE clinical study on pre-emptive Pharmacogenomics testing, involving approx. 8000 patients from 7 clinical sites and she is an active member of the Pharmacogenomics Access and Reimbursement Coalition. Christina Mitropoulou has published several original articles on this topic in leading scientific journals and has edited two textbooks on economic evaluation in Genomic Medicine that are published by Elsevier/Academic Press. George Patrinos is Professor of Pharmacogenomics at the University of Patras School of Health Sciences (Department of Pharmacy) in Patras, Greece with Adjunct positions in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. His research interests span the fields of pharmacogenomics and personalised medicine, focused on psychiatric diseases and hemoglobinopathies, the implementation of genomics into healthcare, particularly for health systems in developing countries, the development of genomic databases and web-based translational tools for personalised medicine and the application of genomics in public health. George Patrinos has published more than 270 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals on topics related to genetics, genomic medicine, pharmacogenomics, molecular diagnostics, and social and economic evaluation for genomic medicine. He is also the editor of several textbooks published by Elsevier/Academic Press, including the renowned textbook Molecular Diagnostics , published by Elsevier now in its third edition. He serves as Editor-In-Chief and Communicating and Associate Editor for several high impact scientific journals and he is co-organizer of the international meeting series Golden Helix Conferences .

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