UT Precision Medicine Undergraduate Fellows
Overview
Conduct extensive research using Precision Medicine to systematically improve quality of health care regarding specific complex medical issues such as Hypertension. There is a faster way to develop personalized medicine and it is required to deliver on the promise of personalized medicine, researchers need to aggregate and analyze large volumes of fragmented patient information – such as clinical, genomic, medical, and social data – trapped in silos and systems. For healthcare providers, this capability uncovers the insights they need.
The benefits of personalized medicine are endless. Using Precision medicine and big data concepts, data scientists can unlock the value of patient data and further improve patient care and patient experience.
In general, precision medicine will further help to simplify the real-time data capture and analysis of health care and life sciences data streams, unlock unique doctor to patient interaction for research and analysis, filter all states of structured and unstructured data and finally making right decisions based on real time data points.
The purpose of UT Precision Medicine is to educate undergraduate students regarding the emerging technology and methodology of precision medicine and about the possibilities of using data to effectively treat patients while incorporating faster decision-making by using research on real time data. The Precision Medicine best practices and approach will prove to be the emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that considers individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person. This approach will allow doctors and researchers to predict more accurately which treatment and prevention strategies for a specific disease will work in which groups of people. It is in contrast to a one-size-fits-all approach, in which disease treatment and prevention strategies are developed for the average person, with less consideration for the differences between individuals.
Bina Joe, Ph.D., FAHA, FAPS (CV)
Distinguished University Professor & Chair
Founding Executive Director, Center for Hypertension & Precision Medicine (CHPM)
Sanjay Koka
Undergraduate Student
Bacc2MD Program
Interests: Develop a Precision Medicine competency by incorporating Big Data into Medical research for successful Precision Medicine use cases and research programs.