Forum:Genetics, Epigenetics & Lifestyle – Another Twist- 11/16/2018

This year’s third IM Network Forum will present and discuss current views on the importance of inherited genes, and the modification of genetic information by the environment, and behavior. Registration required.

Keynote Speaker:
George M. Church, PhD, is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, a founding member of the Wyss Institute and the director of personalgeonomes.org, the world’s only open-access information on human genomic, environmental, and trait data.

Short Talk Presenters and Panelists:
Kathryn T. Hall, PhD, is an assistant professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an associate molecular biologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Olivia I. Okereke, MD, is an associate professor in psychiatry and associate professor in epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and is director of geriatric psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Manoj K. Bhasin, PhD, is an assistant professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the director of bioinformatics and systems biology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Panel Moderator:
John W. Denninger, MD, PhD, is an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the director of research at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body, Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital.