March 6, 2025
FACIT and OBIO® announce inaugural WeSEED cohort of women-led start-ups in joint seed capital and commercialization program
Genetics Adviser has been selected as part of the inaugural cohort of the Women’s Synergistic Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (WeSEED) program, a joint initiative by FACIT and OBIO to support women-led companies driving innovation in healthcare.
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Dec 10, 2024
Genetics in Medicine Podcast: GENEPOD
Genetic testing is becoming increasingly widespread, even for people who may otherwise be healthy, and yet there’s already a shortage of clinical geneticists and genetic counselors. The challenge ahead is to scale up the delivery of informed decision making. A team of researchers in Canada was recently able to test a digital health platform called Genetics Adviser to do so, as part of a study in which the genomes of 1500 theoretically healthy individuals who had come down with COVID were being sequenced to try to understand genetic factors linked to COVID susceptibility and outcomes. Yvonne Bombard, PhD, professor at the University of Toronto and director of the genomics health services and policy program at Unity Health Toronto, joined GenePod to discuss how well the digital platform worked when it came to increasing knowledge and improving outcomes such as decisional conflict and empowerment.
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January 25, 2024
Working with racialized communities to improve access to genetic testing
OICR-supported research led by Dr. Yvonne Bombard aims to understand and overcome barriers that have kept racialized populations from accessing genetic services.
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June 14, 2023
Digital Health Enabled Genomics: Podcast
Wearable technologies are becoming more and more popular. Add to the mix digital health apps and there's a trove of data being translated into meaningful health information for users, physicians and researchers. Explore the emergence of these digital tools in individualized medicine in this episode of Mayo Clinic's "The Pursuit of Precision: The Science Advancing Individualized Medicine" podcast.
Guests are:
Iftikhar Kullo, M.D., a Mayo Clinic cardiologist
Yvonne Bombard, Ph.D., director genomics health services research program at St. Michael's Hospital Unity Health in Toronto
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