Dr. Wayne J. Riley
President, State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn Downstate Medical Center
Twitter: @DownstateMed
President Barack Obama unveiled a new frontier in medical care with the announcement of an unprecedented commitment of federal resources directed at improving health and effectively treating disease during his January 2014 State of the Union Address.
The Precision Medicine Initiative sought to quicken the pace of availability of more advanced and effective “patient-centered” medical treatments to patients and their doctors. In the past, biomedical research often resorted to treatments based on the genetic and inherited characteristics of the “average person.”