Bringing Precision Medicine to Psychiatry

Jordan Smoller, M.D., Sc.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital Trustees Endowed Chair in Psychiatric Neuroscience
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Epidemiology, T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health
Director, Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
Bringing Precision Medicine to Psychiatry
Date: April 10, 2025
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. (Reception and hors d'oeuvres at 5 p.m.)
About this Seminar
Over the past decade, precision medicine has emerged as a new approach to disease treatment and prevention that aims to maximize effectiveness by accounting for individual variability in biology, environment, and lifestyle. This approach has had notable successes in oncology, cardiology, and other fields including the development of targeted therapies and novel tools for risk stratification and treatment matching. More recently, there has been growing interest in bringing the methods and tools of precision medicine to psychiatry. This presentation will introduce some of the goals of “precision psychiatry,” with a particular focus on leveraging large-scale data resources to address unmet needs in mental health care.
Additional Details
This is a free event hosted by Dr. Michael Friedlander and the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute. For more information, please call 540-526-2059.
About Maury Strauss
Maury Strauss was a longtime community benefactor and businessman who supported biomedical research with the goal of energizing the local economy and improving quality of life in our neighborhoods and around the world. In order to ensure the continued success of Roanoke’s biomedical research enterprise, as well as the free public seminars, Mr. Strauss made a generous gift to the series. He passed away in June 2024 at age 99.
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