You are invited to...
MEDICAL DATABASES: THREAT OR PROMISE?
A Science And Public Affairs Forum
Tuesday, 15 February at 5.30pm for 6pm
Scientific Societies' Lecture Theatre
New Burlington Place (off Savile Row)
London W1X
To be followed by wine and canapés
Enthusiasts claim that computerised national databanks of
medical records, including genetic information, will make
medical care better targeted and more efficient....
...others see them as an invasion of personal privacy...
only Iceland has set up such a databank - and it has caused huge
controversy.
Speakers at the forum will be:
Ragnheidur Haraldsdottir Deputy Permanent
Secretary,
Icelandic Ministry of Health and Social
Affairs.
Professor Tom Meade FRS, Director, MRC Epidemiology
& Medical Care Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive
Medicine,
who chairs a joint MRC/Wellcome Trust group concerned with
UK population samples for genetic epidemiology.
Dr James Appleyard Past Chairman, Medical
Ethics Committee,
World Medical Association and member of Central
Ethical Committee,
British Medical Association.
The British Association is holding the forum to mark the
publication of the February issue of Science and Public Affairs,
in which Ragnheidur Haraldsdottir has written an article on the
Icelandic experience of its medical database.
RSVP: James Allport 020 7973 3070
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Sallie Robins, Press Officer
British Association for the Advancement of Science
23 Savile Row
London
W1X 2NB
0171 973 3078
.....promoting science, engineering and technology
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