Guest Speaker Dr. Janardan Kandekar - October 6, 2015
Posted by Al Anile
Above are guest speaker Dr. Janardan Khandecar, NorthShore University HealthSystem, and club member Kristen Murtos, President of Skokie Hospital at NorthShore University HealthSystem.
Guest Speaker Dr. Khandecar spoke about personalized medicine with the aid of a power point slide show.
Dr. Khandecar said that Personalized Medicine is the customization of healthcare that integrates information from an individual patient’s genome (i.e. DNA) into care.
He said that that there is a paradigm shift in health sciences driven by advances in molecular genetics, genomics and proteomics. These developments have ushered in a new era of personalized, individualized medicine that is characterized by an ability to predict, prevent, prognosticate and personalize therapy.
Dr. Khandecar emphasized that medicine is metabolized in different ways based on the DNA makeup of individual human beings, and as a result of this the effect of the drug is different from individual to individual. As an example he told us about a case where a newborn male infant died after being breastfed by his mother, the case of death was morphine overdose. The baby's mother was given Tylenol for postpartum pain which was metabolized very rapidly.