Session Chair Profile
Ph.D., CRO, Sidra Medicine
Biography
Dr Fakhro leads the Laboratory of Genomic Medicine, which focuses on bringing emerging genomic technologies from the lab close to the patients bedside. Over the past decade, his group has sequenced thousands of genomes from patients and volunteers across the Middle East, leading gene discovery efforts for a wide range of rare disorders, as well as landmark studies on population structure, genome structural variation, and the role of Islamic ethics in genome research. In addition to research and hospital duties, Dr Fakhro serves multiple leadership roles in Qatars growing biomedical ecosystem, including as Board Member of the Qatar Precision Medicine Institute, and Adjunct Faculty at both WeillCornell Medical College and Hamad Bin Khalifa University, where he teaches and supervises Masters and PhD students in genomics and precision medicine.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2023 Silicon Valley
Track Chairs:
Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance & Alice Rathjen
- PMWC 2023 Award Ceremony:
Pioneer Honoree: David Bentley, Ilumina
- Learnings and Advancements of Population Studies (PANEL)
Chair: Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance
- David Bentley, Illumina
- Slavé Petrovski, AstraZeneca
- Andrea Ganna, FinnGen
- Robert Wildin, University of Vermont Health
- Alexander Charney, Mount Sinai - Precision Medicine in Understudied Populations
- Ryan Taft, Illumina
- Aimé LUMAKA, WALGEMED - Building Future Precision Care in Qatar
Chair: Khalid Fakhro, Sidra Medicine
- Ziyad M. Hijazi, Sidra Medicine
- Edison T. Liu, The Jackson Labs
- Challenges and Opportunities for National Precision Medicine Initiatives (PANEL)
Chair: Alessandro Riccombeni, Microsoft UK
- Catalina Lopez-Correa, Genome Canada
- Khalid Fakhro, Sidra Medicine
- Framework to Improve the Translation of Genomics into the Clinic (PANEL)
Chair: Kathleen Barnes, Tempus Labs
- Carlos Bustamante, Galatea Bio
- Ora Gordon, Providence
- Abasi Ene-Obong, 54gene - Identifying Relationships Between Disparate Data Sets to Monitor and Control Pathogen Outbreak (PANEL)
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Amy Kirby, CDC
- Smruthi Karthikeyan, Caltech - Increasing Diversity in Population Studies
- Manual Rivas - Global Biobank Engine, Stanford Rivas Lab
- The Missing Diversity in Human Epigenomic Studies
- Charles E. Breeze, National Cancer Institute
- The Transition from Genomics to Phenomics in Precision Population Health
- Lee Hood, Phenome Health
