CSEE Colloquium
Personalized Medicine – the future is already here
Professor Eddy Karnieli, MD
Director, Institute of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel
Director, Galil Center for Medical Informatics, Telemedicine
and Personalized Medicine
Technion, Israel
2:30pm June 20, 2013, ITE 325b, UMBC
Professor Eddy Karnieli will talk about applications of personalized medicine in healthcare. Personalized medicine allows us to determine an individual's unique genetic and molecular characteristics and use this to better diagnose and treat diseases and reduce possible adverse reactions. Personalized medicine can also be used to predict an individual's susceptibility to diseases, enabling steps to help avoid or reduce the extent to which an individual will experience a disease.
Professor Eddy Karnieli is a graduate of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion– Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. He obtained clinical training in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology at the Rambam Medical Center and did his Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Diabetes, Obesity and Endocrinology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California at San Diego and at the National Institutes of Health. Recently, he was a visiting professor at MSSM in New York.
He is currently the Director of the Institute of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Rambam Medical Center and the Director of Galil Center for Medical informatics, Telemedicine and personalized Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine – Technion. Professor Karnieli's main research interests are the molecular mechanisms for regulating cellular glucose uptake and transporters and their implications in diabetes and obesity; Medical informatics, telemedicine and personalized medicine. He is also the current President of the Israel Endocrine Society.
He has published over 70 peer reviewed papers and reviews. Professor Karnieli serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals and review boards. Professor Karnieli is a retired Colonel from the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps.