Training and Education
Vanderbilt is committed to supporting research that spans biomedical endeavors across the basic, translational, and clinical sciences, including research and training opportunities in personalized medicine. There is a major focus on discovery and implementation in personalized medicine across many training programs in each of the key academic units and across the medical center.
In additional to advanced degree and training programs, online courses and archived lectures for contuining education are also available here.
Advanced Training
Master of Genetic Counseling
The mission of the program is to educate diverse genetic counselors who will be leaders in genomic medicine, striving to increase access to care, education, and research in genetic counseling.
The curriculum involves both a didactic (lecture) component as well as rotations in clinical settings.
Vanderbilt Genomic Medicine (VGM) training program
This program supports multidisciplinary training through a curriculum tailored for each trainee based on prior experience, coupled to paired mentoring to provide both clinical and methodological expertise.
VGM fellows are trained in data science, bioinformatics, laboratory science, and genomic discovery; the program also instructs fellows on the practice of genomic medicine.
This program actively seeks candidates from varied professional and research backgrounds.
Contuining Education
Case Studies in Personalized Medicine
This open online Coursera class addresses how advances in biomedicine hold the potential to revolutionize drug development, drug treatments, and disease prevention: Where are we now, and what does the future hold? This course will present short primers in genetics and mechanisms underlying variability in drug responses.
A series of case studies will be used to illustrate principles of how genetics are being brought to bear on refining diagnoses and on personalizing treatment in rare and common diseases. The ethical and operational issues around how to implement large scale genomic sequencing in clinical practice will be addressed.
Archived lectures on video
- Dr. Dan Roden presents the Andrew F. Holmes Lecture at McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada, "Using Little Data and Big Data to Personalize Medicine," May 18, 2017.
- Research at Vanderbilt: "Negative Reactions to Medication Can Be Explained by Genes and the Immune System," presented by Drs. Sarah L. Garon, Rebecca K. Pavlos, Katie D. White, Nancy J. Brown, Cosby A. Stone, Elizabeth J. Phillips, 2017.
- Dr. Josh Denny presents a lecture at Stanford University as part of the Big Data in Biomedicine Series, "The All of Us Research Program: Accelerating Precision Health for All," June 9, 2017.
Personalized Medicine Day video archive
- Carlos Bustamante, Keynote Speaker 2018, "Innovating in Data Science for Precision Health"
- David Glazer, Keynote Speaker 2017, "Big Data and Personalized Medicine"
