Advancing Healthcare Through Personalized Medicine

Priya Hays Hays Documentation Specialists San Mateo, CA USA Priya Hays, M.S., Ph.D. is an accomplished science writer, having written and published five books as well as having authored over thirty publications in journals as varied as the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, L’Esprit Createur, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Genetics in Medicine, European Journal of Medical Research and Discover Oncology focusing on personalized medicine and precision oncology. She served as Guest Editor for a volume on cancer immunotherapies in the Cancer Treatment and Research series and wrote the second edition of her book on personalized medicine Advancing Healthcare Through Personalized Medicine, both published by Springer Nature. Her sixth book is a compilation of her published and conference papers entitled "A Dialectical Mind: Essays in Literary Studies, Science and Medicine" published by Eliva Press. She is an elected member of the American Association for Cancer Research, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, the American Association of Immunologists and the European Society for Medical Oncology and is ranked in the top 0.05% of all scholars worldwide by ScholarGPS as a Highly Ranked Scholar. Her work has been featured in The ASCO Post, Blood Cancers Today, Research Features and Open Access Government United Kingdom. She completed her postdoctoral research fellowship in the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, at Dartmouth Medical School. She has an A.B. with Honors from Dartmouth College in Biochemistry and Comparative Literature, an M.S. in Genetics from the University of California, Davis, and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, San Diego.

1. Introduction: Biomedical Innovation and Policy in the Twenty-First Century.- 2. The Rise of Genomics and Personalized Medicine.- 3. Patient Narratives: Personalized Medicine in the Field.- 4. Alliances: Knowledge Infrastructures, and the Digitization of Precision Health.- 5. Tumor Genesis and Precision Oncology.- 6. Trends in Precision Oncology and Precision Medicine 2.0.- 7.Personalized medicine's impact on disease.- 8. The Genome in the Clinic and Boardroom: Biomarkers, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Education.- 9. A New Set of Clinical tools for Physicians.- 10. Legislation, Reimbursement and the Regulatory Landscape.- 11. Translational personalized medicine: Molecular profiling, druggable targets, and clinical genomic medicine.- 12. The Health Economics of Personalized Precision Medicine.- 13. Moral, Societal and Ethical Issues: Claims,  Consequences, and Caveats.- 14. Conclusion.