“The eMERGE PGx project: design and implementation”
presented by:
Laura Jarmila Rasmussen-Torvik, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine
Abstract: The human genome project generated a vision that genetic information could guide clinical care. Despite the identification of many pharmacogenetic variants, there are critical needs both to determine the best application of pharmacogenetic testing in routine clinical care and to learn more about rare variants in pharmacogenes. This talk willl describe the design and implementation of eMERGE-PGx, a multi-site test of the concept that pharmacogenomic sequence information can be coupled to electronic health records (EMRs) for use in healthcare. Nearly 9,000 participants are being enrolled in eMERGE PGx across 10 clinical sites, including 750 at Northwestern University. Details on site-specific project implementation, and anticipated products, including data repositories, novel variant association studies, clinical decision support modules, process outcomes, methods for incidental findings, and patient and clinician education methods, will be discussed with emphasis on the challenges and successes of implementation to date at Northwestern.
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