12 "Human Genetic Variation and the Promise of Individual Medicine," by Stephen Stearns

In the summer of 2011, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) co-sponsored "Evolutionary Foundations for Medicine and Public Health," a one week intensive course for medical practitioners and clinicians. This was the first Continuing Medical Education course on evolutionary medicine. It was sponsored and hosted by the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, and organized by Course Director Randolph Nesse. Faculty included William Aird, Gillian Bentley, Carl Bergstrom, Peter Ellision, Peter Gluckman, Chris Reiber and Stephen Stearns. Forty physicians, scientists, and educators from around the world attended. These videos were filmed by Sam Ellison, and posted on YouTube thanks to NESCent and the NESCent Working Group on Evolution and Medicine led by Mark Schwartz and Peter Ellison.

For more information about the course please visit:

General information about the course: http://www.mdibl.org/courses/Evolution_and_Medicine/296/

Abstracts: https://my.mdibl.org/x/zgMkAQ

Course resources: https://my.mdibl.org/display/courses/Evolution+and+Medicine

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• evolution
• medicine
• evolutionary medicine
• Darwinian medicine

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I'm a fan of Dr. Stearns.