Principal speaker
Associate Professor Marcel Dinger
Other speakers
Assoc Prof Brent Richards
Menzies Health Institute Queensland
Understanding Chronic Conditions Program Seminar
Topic 15 - Big Data in Health Research
Abstracts
Assoc Prof Brent Richards - Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence techniques are rapidly evolving, creating considerable improvements and opportunities for many industries. It is predicted that the return on investment for Healthcare will be greater than most other areas, with considerable improvements in patient and system outcomes. Consequent to this will be considerable changes in how we practice medicine, working in concert with developing AI tools to improve patient experience and clinical results. Underpinning the AI revolution is Big Data - valuing data, collecting it whenever and wherever possible, and applying advanced tools to better understand the information in the data. This will also need to involve capturing, analysing and understanding streaming data.
Assoc Prof Marcel Dinger - Genomics in the clinic: Transforming healthcare and medical research
Genetic testing currently plays a relatively niche role in healthcare, with testing typically limited to single genes and targeting a narrow range of diseases. Exponential decreases in costs of DNA sequencing have expanded the potential application of genomics in healthcare. In addition to diagnosing diseases that can be caused by large numbers of different genes, whole genome sequencing has potential for reanalysis in different contexts. This potential argues for a new testing paradigm, where genomic sequencing is undertaken once and analysed throughout an individual's lifetime to guide clinical decision-making and optimise health management. Here I will present on our implementation of whole genome sequencing in the routine diagnosis of genetic and rare diseases, and discuss the opportunity for genomics to close the gap between research and clinical application, ultimately enabling the use of genomic information to inform whole of life healthcare.
Biographies
Assoc Prof Brent Richards - is Director of Critical Care research and Medical Director of Innovation at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, and Associate Professor at Griffith and Bond Universities. He has also been previously director of ICU for 15 years, an executive director of Surgery, and chair of the state Intensive Care network. He helped design and commission the new 50 bed ICU in the Gold Coast University hospital. Brent's research interests are wide ranging, both as a foundation member of the ANZICS CTG and numerous commercial multi-centre trials over the last 20 years, as well as interest in how technology and devices can improve patient outcomes.
Assoc Prof Marcel Dinger - is the Founding CEO of Genome.One, Head of the Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics (KCCG) at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and conjoint Associate Professor at UNSW Australia. Genome.One is a world-class clinical genomics service and develops specialist software and analytics solutions to enable precision healthcare worldwide. Genome.One was one of the first companies in the world to implement the HiSeq X Ten genome sequencing platform, which has capacity to sequence 18,000 human genomes per year, and provide a disease diagnostics service based on whole genome sequencing. He has worked in bioinformatics and genomics since 1998 in both commercial and academic capacities.
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