VIDEO: There will be an ‘explosion’ in personalized medicine over next 10 years
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NEW YORK — In this video, C. Buddy Creech, MD, MPH, says pediatrics will see an “explosion” in personalized medicine over the next 10 years for diagnosing and treating infectious and rheumatologic diseases and autoinflammatory conditions.
“I think many of us get frustrated with the types of tools that we have readily available to us either in the office or in the hospital setting,” said Creech, a professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program and a Healio Pediatrics Peer Perspective Board member. “We rely on cultures that might take days to grow, or we send out tests to specialty laboratories hoping that we get an answer back before we send the next wave of tests.”
Using personalized data will make the diagnosis and management of conditions easier and more precise, he said.
“I think these are no longer science fiction but really what we may see come to bear in the next 5 to 10 years,” Creech said.
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