Aspen Ideas Festival 2012

Aspen Ideas Festival: Is personalized medicine a myth?

Three doctors debate the pros and cons -- and the costs and benefits -- of high-tech and genomic medicine, at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Guests

• Ezekiel Emanuel: MD. Oncologist. Chair of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania
• Eric Topol: MD. Cardiologist. Former head of the Cleveland Clinic, now director of Scripps Translational Science Institute.
• Margaret Hamburg: MD. Internal medicine and neuroscience. Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

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Resources

• Aspen Ideas Festival 2012 website
• about Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel
• about Dr. Eric Topol
• about Dr. Margaret Hamburg