Palestra Genomics and Health in Chile: Opportunities and Challenges

Título: Genomics and Health in Chile: Opportunities and Challenges

Data: 26 de outubro de 2017  (quinta feira) – 14h às 15h 

Local: Sala de Reuniões da Graduação de Medicina, primeiro piso da FCM 1 – Faculdade de Ciências Médicas UNICAMP.

Palestrante: Profa. Gabriela Repetto

Gabriela Repetto, MD, Clinical Geneticist. Director of the Center for Genetics and Genomics at Facultad de Medicina, Clinica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile. She received her MD degree from Universidad Catolica in Santiago; trained as Pediatrics Resident at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Clinical Genetics  Fellow at Children`s Hospital in Boston in the US.

She works as a clinical geneticist at Clinical Alemana and Hospital Padre Hurtado, and leads research in rare disorders, with particular interest in diseases that affect the heart and the brain, such as 22q11 microdeletion syndrome.She is also working as an advisor to the Chilean Ministry of Health on the incorporation of genomics in the health system.

Maiores informações com a doutora Iscia Cendes (icendes@unicamp.br), do Departamento de Genética Médica da FCM ou Sônia Romeu (soniaromeu@hc.unicamp.br) 

Apoio:  CEPID-BRAINN (www.brain.org.br)