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Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: March 1& 2, 2011 - Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2011. Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13284.

Appendix C

March 1& 2, 2011—Workshop Agenda

Framework for Developing a New Taxonomy of Disease

Tuesday and Wednesday, March 1 and 2, 2011
The House of Sweden—Alfred Nobel Hall
Washington, DC

AGENDA
Day 1

Breakfast available at 7:15 am in the Atrium Lounge

8:00 AM

SESSION 1: WELCOME AND OPENING TALKS

Committee co-chairs:

o Susan Desmond-Hellmann: Chancellor, UCSF

o Charles Sawyers: Director of HOPP, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Chris Chute: Professor of Medical Informatics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine—Current Taxonomy: importance, process of updating ICD

Atul Butte: Chief and Assistant Professor, Division of Systems Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford—Current Taxonomy transitioning to New Taxonomy

9:20 AM

Break

9:35 AM

A NEW TAXONOMY NETWORK—Keith Yamamoto A proposal for consideration and further development.

10:00 AM

SESSION 2: DO WE NEED AN AMERICAN GENOMES PROJECT?

A panel discussion—David Goldstein, Moderator

Is genomic information central to a New Taxonomy of Disease? What are the opportunities and concerns? What is

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: March 1& 2, 2011 - Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2011. Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13284.

happening now with whole-genome sequencing? What are the goals in near/ long term?—Define productive pathways.

Andrew Conrad: Chief Scientific Officer, LabCorp’s NGI

Kathy Giusti: Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF)

Panel discussion: ~30 min

11:00 AM

SESSION 3: BEYOND THE GENOME—INFORMATION FOR A NEW TAXONOMY

A panel discussion—Manuel Llinas, Moderator

In addition to genome sequence, other information could be leveraged to improve health and research as part of a New Taxonomy of Disease Network. What information could/ should be included in the network? Would this enable longitudinal studies?

Lewis Cantley: Chief, Division of Signal Transduction, Harvard Medical School—Metabolome, proteome

Martin Blaser:Frederick H. King Professor of Internal Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine—Microbiome

Jason Lieb: Professor, Department of Biology, UNC—Epigenetics; ENCODE project

Helmut Zarbl: UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Environmental & Occupational Medicine, Rutgers University—Environmental Health, toxicology

Erin Ramos: Epidemiologist, National Human Genome Research Institute—Sociological contributions, PhenX

Panel discussion: ~30 min

12:45 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM

SESSION 4: ETHICS AND PRIVACY

A panel discussion—Bernie Lo, Moderator

Alta Charo: Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin Law School—Informed Consent, Privacy

Sanford Schwartz: Professor of Medicine, Health Care Management, and Economics, University of Pennsylvania—Clinical validation issues

Debra Lappin: President, Council for American Medical Innovation—Patient Advocate

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: March 1& 2, 2011 - Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2011. Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13284.

Panel discussion: ~30 min

3:00 PM

Break

3:30 PM

SESSION 5: PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT—PHARMA; BIOTECH A panel discussion—David Cox; Moderator

1. How would a New Taxonomy of human disease enable more cost-effective and rapid development of new, effective, and safe drugs in the pharma/biotech setting?

2. How would a New Taxonomy of human disease promote integration of clinical and research cultures in the pharma/ biotech industry?

3. How would a New Taxonomy of human disease promote public/private partnerships between industry and academia?

4. What are key factors that would limit the implementation of a New Taxonomy of human disease in the pharma/biotech setting?

Klaus Lindpaintner: Vice President of R&D, SDI

Charles Baum: Vice President of Global R&D, Pfizer

Corey Goodman: Managing Director and Co-Founder, venBio

Panel discussion: ~30 min

5:00 PM

Summary of the day, overview of tomorrow, discussion: Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Charles Sawyers

AGENDA
Day 2

Breakfast available at 7:15 am in the Atrium Lounge

8:00 AM

Opening Remarks: Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Charles Sawyers

8:10 AM

SESSION 6: PRAGMATIC CONSIDERATIONS—THE END USER

A panel discussion—David Hunter and David Nichols; Moderators

1. What taxonomy framework would be most useful for your end-user group? Why?

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: March 1& 2, 2011 - Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2011. Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13284.

2. What characteristics of a taxonomy framework might harm your end-user group? Why?

3. What criteria should be used to assess the value of a New Taxonomy? (cost, ethics, practicality, health-care outcomes, etc.?)

4. Should the lay public be able to comprehend a New Taxonomy of Disease?

Janet Woodcock: Director, CDER/FDA

Jon Lorsch: Professor of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

Brian Kelly: Head of Informatics and Strategic Alignment, Aetna

Sanford Schwartz: Professor of Medicine, Health Care Management, and Economics, University of Pennsylvania—Cost Effectiveness Issues

Panel discussion: ~30 min

10:00 AM

Break

10:15 AM

SESSION 7: INSTRUMENTING THE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM TO DEFINE AND LEVERAGE A NEW TAXONOMY

A panel discussion—Isaac Kohane, Moderator

Considerations for cognition, data handling, visualization and user interface.

Daniel Masys: Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center—eMERGE consortium (using health care data to run genomic studies)

John Brownstein: Instructor, Harvard Medical School—Informal data sources,Health map.org

Panel discussion: ~30 min

12:00 PM

Lunch

12:45 PM

SESSION 8: A CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE ON A NEW TAXONOMY Case Studies—Charles Sawyers, Moderator Physician/Scientists consider what a New Taxonomy of Disease would mean for the disease they study.

William Pao: Director, Personalized Cancer Medicine at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center—Lung Cancer

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: March 1& 2, 2011 - Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2011. Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13284.

Ingrid Scheffer: Professor of Paediatric Neurology Research, University of Melbourne—Epilepsy

Elissa Epel: Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Psychiatry at UCSF—Chronic Stress/ Obesity

Panel discussion: ~30 min

2:15 PM

Final discussion and Closing Remarks: Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Charles Sawyers

(Committee will meet for an hour in closed session)

3:00 PM

Adjourn

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: March 1& 2, 2011 - Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2011. Toward Precision Medicine: Building a Knowledge Network for Biomedical Research and a New Taxonomy of Disease. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13284.

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