Risk: Spur Toronto 2017 Program
The final program for Spur Toronto's 2017 Edition: Risk
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a national festival of politics, art and Ideas<br />
Saturday April 8<br />
SACHA BHATIA<br />
NEIL FRASER<br />
KELLY CROWE<br />
MODERATOR<br />
<strong>Risk</strong> and Health<br />
12:00 PM<br />
Location: Gardiner Museum<br />
Medicine has successfully sequenced the entire human genome. So what? Genome sequencing reveals<br />
our predisposition to inherited disease risk and enables identification of medications that are right for<br />
us individually. As innovation in healthcare marches us towards personalized medicine – chemotherapy<br />
that targets your individual tumours rather than treatments with massive collateral damage, phone<br />
apps that enable you to monitor your insulin levels or heart health daily, 3D printing that will replace<br />
your diseased organs – <strong>Spur</strong> asks: can technology help us live to 120 years old and save medicare? And,<br />
as the Canadian parliament debates the issue of mandatory genetic testing for insurance purposes,<br />
where has privacy gone to die?<br />
Sacha Bhatia, a health policy researcher with significant experience in health policy, is the national Evaluation<br />
Lead for Canada’s Choosing Wisely Campaign – an effort to help clinicians and patients a national festival engage of in conversations<br />
politics, art and ideas<br />
about unnecessary tests and treatments to reduce harm and improve care. He advises the Ministry of Health<br />
and Long-Term Care, hospitals and other healthcare organizations on various health systems issues, including<br />
strategic planning and quality improvement.<br />
Neil Fraser is the President of Medtronic Canada and Regional Vice-President – Canada, Medtronic plc. He is also<br />
the Chair of MEDEC and a Board Member of Baycrest Health Sciences. In 2014, he was a member of the federal<br />
Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation and the Ontario Health Innovation Council. Neil is a frequent speaker<br />
on the topics of Winnipeg value-based • May procurement, 12–15, 2016 outcomes-based healthcare, and the medical device sector’s role in<br />
improving clinical outcomes, economic value, and access to quality healthcare.<br />
Winnipeg • May 12–15, 2016<br />
Kelly Crowe is a medical sciences correspondent for CBC National News. During her career she has reported on<br />
elections, floods, forest fires, political leadership conventions and breaking news such as the 1999 Columbine<br />
shootings in Colorado and the SARS outbreak in Canada in 2003. Kelly has followed an Afghanistan theatre troop<br />
touring through the war-torn country, embedded with the Canadian military during sovereignty exercises in<br />
Canada’s North, and spent a week in Yellowstone National Park following up on a Canadian wolf pack.<br />
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