{"id":1672,"date":"2019-05-08T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T02:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2019-05-09T10:43:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T00:43:25","slug":"genetic-epilepsies-and-precision-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2019\/05\/08\/genetic-epilepsies-and-precision-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetic epilepsies and precision medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/334844859?dnt=1&#038;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Grand Round, presented by Dr Annapurna Poduri from Boston will explore the role of genetics in epilepsy and the importance of pursuing genetic diagnoses in patients with epilepsy as a step toward refined treatment and precision medicine strategies. Dr Puduri will emphasize the importance of integrating what we know from the clinic into clinically relevant model systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Annapurna Poduri<\/strong>, MD MPH is\u00a0a clinician-scientist focused on epilepsy genetics. She is the\u00a0Director of the\u00a0Epilepsy Genetics Program\u00a0at\u00a0Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital and\u00a0Associate Professor in Neurology at\u00a0Harvard Medical School. Her translational\u00a0research program has conducted many collaborative projects on gene discovery and genotype-phenotype correlation, and her\u00a0laboratory is modelling epilepsy-related genes in zebrafish. Dr Poduri serves on the International League Against Epilepsy Genetics Commission and chairs the American Epilepsy Society\/National Institutes of Neurological Disorders\u00a0and Stroke Epilepsy Benchmarks Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Grand Round, presented by Dr Annapurna Poduri from Boston will explore the role of genetics in epilepsy and the importance of pursuing genetic diagnoses in patients with epilepsy as a step toward refined treatment and precision medicine strategies. Dr Puduri will emphasize the importance of integrating what we know from the clinic into clinically relevant model systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12675,7932,5270,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neurology","category-research","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}