CADTH Lecture Series — Timothy Caulfield

The CADTH Lecture Series provides prominent scholars and opinion leaders with a forum to discuss pressing issues facing health technology assessment (HTA) and health care today.

Join the CADTH Lecture Series for the first session of 2016. The lecture, A “Revolution”? — The Limits of Personalized Medicine, will be hosted by Timothy Caulfield, author of The Cure for Everything!: Untangling the Twisted Messages About Health, Fitness and Happiness (Penguin 2012) and Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash (Penguin 2015).

The idea that we are in the midst of a genetic revolution has been with us for decades. The latest iteration of this promise of paradigm-shifting transformation comes in the guise of “personalized medicine” — which, we are consistently told, will revolutionize our health care system and reduce the burden of chronic disease. But can personalized medicine live up to the hype? Will it really result in more healthy Canadians? In this presentation, Mr. Caulfield will argue that there are reasons to be skeptical and that, in fact, the constant hype can hurt public perceptions of science, patient care, and health policy.

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