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GET workshop
April 25, 2012, 1:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Personal genomics education: Take action in your community
GET conference attendees, please join pgEd’s Dana Waring and Chris Korey, Professor of Biology from the College of Charleston (also PGP participant #huA4F281) for a conversation about how you can contribute to personal genomics education.
What have you learned from being part of the PGP that could inform national education efforts? What are the highlights and surprises of your experience thus far, and what insights do you now have that could help accelerate public understanding of the advantages as well as complexities of knowing one’s genome?
In addition to exchanging ideas on the most pressing issues concerning the scientific and social implications of personal genetics, participants will leave with a set of tools to conduct formal and informal sessions that can educate the public in an unbiased manner. Our premise is that PGPers have a unique and powerful voice with which to engage the general public about the hopes, realities, and ethical nuances of personal genomics.