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The author uses decades of experience and interviews with experts in precision medicine to explain past, present, and future of precision medicine. She reviews the full continuum of personalizing precision medicine, including diagnostics, therapeutics, big data, supportive care, regulation, and reimbursement and innovation in precision medicine worldwide. •    Combines a unique cross section of history, current technologies, and future directions for how precision medicine has and will affect people worldwide •    Reviews precision medicine around the world, including the US, China, Japan, the Middle East, India, Europe, and Latin America •    Discusses a number of diseases areas – cancer, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, infectious disease, pain, immunology, rare diseases •    Includes information and quotes from over 100 interviews with key industry experts in biotech, pharma, informatics, diagnostics, health providers, advocacy groups, and more. •    Includes stories illustrating current issues and future promises in precision medicine for a human touch

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A tour de force - Kristin brings Precision Medicine into focus with clear and practical commentary. Personalizing Precision Medicine is exactly what healthcare establishment needs now - how to make it real and cost effective. - Mara Aspinall, President and CEO, Health Catalysts, Co-Founder, Arizona State University School of Biomedical Diagnostics As a surgeon, I find the importance of precision surgery to be obvious, but describing precision medicine has been a challenge - until now! Kristin explains it all, from the basic science to compelling, personal stories that make the science come to life. It helps us examine precision medicine from all angles and helps us as physicians explain it comprehensively to others. - Tenley Albright, Director of the MIT Collaborative Initiatives, former surgeon, and World and Olympic Champion figure skater As a young patient with breast cancer, it was overwhelming to research every aspect of my care to make sure it was personalized for me. This book, Personalizing Precision Medicine, should be one of the very first tools to educate people like me, and those professionals who supported me. The facts, mixed with personal stories from all around the world, were something I wish I'd had when I was first diagnosed. - Liz Lord, Breast cancer slayer, former US diplomat and owner of ArlVa Homes LLC

A tour de force - Kristin brings Precision Medicine into focus with clear and practical commentary. Personalizing Precision Medicine is exactly what healthcare establishment needs now - how to make it real and cost effective. - Mara Aspinall, President and CEO, Health Catalysts, Co-Founder, Arizona State University School of Biomedical Diagnostics As a surgeon, I find the importance of precision surgery to be obvious, but describing precision medicine has been a challenge - until now! Kristin explains it all, from the basic science to compelling, personal stories that make the science come to life. It helps us examine precision medicine from all angles and helps us as physicians explain it comprehensively to others. - Tenley Albright, Director of the MIT Collaborative Initiatives, former surgeon, and World and Olympic Champion figure skater

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Kristin Ciriello Pothier started her career sequencing for the Human Genome Project and has subsequently spent more than 20 years in strategy consulting and scientific and clinical research in the healthcare and life sciences industries. She is a leader in precision medicine business strategy and in clinical laboratory innovation, developing product and service strategies and operations worldwide, and is a noted speaker and writer in the healthcare industry. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and their two lively children.

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