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Presentation: The Benefits and Challenges of Genomics and Personalized Medicine for North American Chinese
Time: Sunday Morning
Purpose:
Define personalized medicine
Describe and give an example of a genomic-based marker
Discuss how to evaluate the role of genetic testing for clinical conditions
Discuss the current state of knowledge of the relationship between genomics and self-inferred racial and/or ethnic identity
Objectives:
Discuss the relevance of genomics to the care of Chinese patients.
Review the state of knowledge genomics, disease susceptibility, and drug response.
Discuss issues of clinical utility as applied to direct-to-consumer genetic testing .
Discuss issues related to genomics and self-inferred racial and/or ethnic identity.
Review the VKORC1 data and the ongoing COAG trial.
Program Director, Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Program
Program Director, Division of Extramural Research
National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
Bio:
Vivian OTA WANG is a Program Director at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health. She is currently responsible for the management and oversight of human subject issues and dataset access of genomic datasets for the NHGRI and the National Cancer Institute/NHGRI Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project. She has served as an (NIH) Agency Representative to the National Science and Technology Council of the Executive Office of the President under the Bush and Obama administrations, where she was responsible for developing and leading public participation and the ethical, legal, and societal issues of nanoscale science and nanotechnology activities. Previously she served as a Senior Advisor to the Director of NIH’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and Program Director of the NHGRI-NIH Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research Program.
Prior to joining NIH, she held tenure-track faculty positions at Rutgers, Arizona State, and Vanderbilt universities where she maintained a research program focused on issues related to race and racial identity issues in research ethics, program development and evaluation, and public engagement in psychology, genomics, and public health.
Dr. Ota Wang has served on numerous national and international advisory committees, rand review panels for US Federal agencies, and professional and international organizations including the US Department of Health and Human Services’ National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, the US. Department of Agriculture, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. She has also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Genetic Counseling and the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development.
Dr. Ota Wang’s accomplishments have been recognized by numerous awards and honors.
She has been awarded a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Award (2005) for Distinguished Service, National Institutes of Health Directors Awards (2008, 2009), and NIH-National Human Genome Research Institutes Merit Awards (2005, 2006[3], 2010). For recognition of her career accomplishments, she has been honored with the Colorado College Louis T. Benezet Award for outstanding achievement, excellence through unusual success or contributions (2007), the Asian American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Contributions Award (2007), the American Psychological Association’s Meritorious Research Service Commendation (2009) and the Teachers College –Columbia University Distinguished Alumnus Award (2010).
Dr. Ota Wang received a BA in Biology from Colorado College, an MS in Genetic Counseling from the University of Colorado and an MPhil and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University. She is a Fellow of the American Medical Association’s American College of Medical Genetics, a Diplomate of the American Board of Genetic Counseling, a Clinical Laboratory Specialist in Cytogenetics and a licensed psychologist.