David Bick | Principal Clinician, Newborn Genomes Programme
Genomics England

David Bick, Principal Clinician, Newborn Genomes Programme, Genomics England

David Bick MD is the Principal Clinician for the Newborn Genomes Programme at Genomics England.  Prior to his work in England, he was the chief medical officer and a faculty investigator at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.  Dr. Bick also served as the Medical Director of the Smith Family Clinic for Genomic Medicine at HudsonAlpha and the Laboratory Director of the HudsonAlpha Clinical Services Laboratory.
 
He came to HudsonAlpha from the Medical College of Wisconsin where he was Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Director of the Clinical Sequencing Laboratory, Director of the Advanced Genomics Laboratory,  Medical Director of the Genetics Clinic at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, and Chief of the Division of Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics at Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Bick is board certified in Pediatrics, Clinical Genetics, and Clinical Molecular Genetics.
 
Dr. Bick has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and reviews.  His laboratories at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin were the first in the world to offer whole genome sequencing as a clinical test.  He also developed the first Genomic Medicine Clinic in the United States.

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Day 2: 6th May @ 12:05

Genome Sequencing: Early Results of the Generation Study

  • How screening the whole genome at birth may lead to improved long-term health outcomes and earlier intervention.
  •  How anonymised genomic data be used by researchers to develop more accurate and effective diagnostic tools.
  • How to balance the imperative to build research databases that improve patient care with strict patient privacy obligations
  • Whether genomic data can be used across a lifetime by researchers to develop more accurate and effective diagnostic tools
last published: 22/Oct/26 14:19 GMT

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