Thursday 5 October 2017 4:30pm
About
Date: 05 October 2017
Time: 16:30 - 19:00
Venue: Hughes Hall Cambridge, CB1 2EW
Organised by the PHG Foundation, and featuring Professor Joshua Hordern of the Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership, this event will explore the hopes and pitfalls along the path of personalised medicine for which intelligent exploration and consensus will be needed to maximise patient benefit.
Speaker biography
Joshua Hordern was appointed Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Oxford in 2012. He leads the multi-disciplinary Wellcome Trust/AHRC funded Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership (www.healthcarevalues.ox.ac.uk) which collaborates with healthcare bodies including the Stratification in Colorectal Cancer Consortium, the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal College of Physicians where Joshua sits on the Committee for Ethical Issues in Medicine.
Publications include a coedited open access special journal issue entitled Personalised Medicine:The Promise, the Hype and the Pitfalls (The New Bioethics, 2017) and Political Affections: Civic Participation and Moral Theology (OUP, 2013). He is currently working on a new book entitled Compassion in Healthcare: Practical Policy for Civic Life to be published by OUP.
Visit the PHG Foundation website for more details and to book your place.