July 4, 2017

CMO Annual Report on Genomics

The SMC played host to the launch of the Chief Medical Officer’s annual report.  The focus of this report will be on the genomics revolution and Dame Sally Davies has invited some of the leading researchers, ethicists and clinicians who contributed to the report to join her in publishing it.

Speakers:

Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer

Dr Claudia Langenberg, Specialist Registrar in Public Health at University College London, Programme Lead in Molecular Epidemiology at the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge and Editor of the Chief Medical Officer’s Annual Report 2015

Professor Patrick Chinnery, Programme Leader in Mitochondria genomics and human disease at MRC

Professor Julian Parkhill, Head of Infection Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and an Honorary Professor of Microbial Genomics, University of Cambridge

Professor Jonathan Montgomery, Professor of Health Care Law, University College London and Chair of the Health Research Authority