Communicating Genetic Risk
Personal genetic risk information is set to be become part of everyday healthcare. But is some unhelpful, even dangerous? What psychological impact does it have on patients? And do doctors know enough about genetics to effectively guide patients and inform treatment decisions? Joining David to discussing what genetic risks should be communicated and how, we have: Professor Robert Green, Director of the Genomes to People group at Harvard Medical School. Dr Gemma Chandratillake, Course director of the Genomic Medicine Programme at the University of Cambridge Dr Saskia Sanderson, a UCL psychologist working on the impact of genetic information With a special contribution from Jillian Hastings Ward, Chair of the participant panel for the 100,000 Genomes Project. Views to share? Get in touch on Twitter @RiskyTalkPod or email riskytalk@maths.cam.ac.uk. Risky Talk is produced by Ilan Goodman for the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge.