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Editorial
Framingham, Massachusetts; 1948.
In 1948, the U.S. Congress commissioned this city, chosen for its representativeness of the overall American population, to conduct a follow-up study on a cohort of 5,209 adult subjects. Prior to this study, little or nothing was known about the epidemiology of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. This study turned the very notion of risk factors on its head, and what we now know about the effects of diet, physical exercise or antiaggregant drugs on heart disease stems from this longitudinal study, which is still ongoing and now concerns the third generation of subjects...
Prevention has finally become a major medical cause, and concerns both communicable, infectious diseases, as well as non-communicable diseases such as heart disease and cancer.
Prevention concerns populations, and it is those populations that prevention campaigns are aimed at. Because prevention studies accumulate a huge amount of data, it is then possible to run artificial intelligence tools and use these global data to deduce individual risk factors. The focus then shifts from prevention to prediction.
The 2024 Harvey Cushing Symposium, entitled "From prevention to prediction: algorithms for better health", aims to delve into this universe and its components. From cardiovascular and metabolic diseases to cancer, from health check-ups to ageing detection, from tobacco control to vaccination, from algorithms to digital twins, we now have powerful tools to live better, longer, and healthier. It is this personalized medicine, tailored to each of us, that this symposium will explore, drawing on French and American insights thanks to the participation of the American Universities of Columbia Irving Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine.
Gérard Friedlander
Organizing committee
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Prof. Gérard Friedlander
Former Dean of Paris Descartes School of Medicine, Medical Executive Director of American Hospital of Paris
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Prof. Arnold Munnich
Pediatrician, geneticist and president of the Imagine Foundation
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Prof. Benoît Gallix
Full Professor, American Hospital of Paris
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Dr. Samuel H. Selesnick MD FACS
Senior US Medical Counselor of the American Hospital of Paris, Professor and Vice Chair – Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, Editor-in-Chief - The Laryngoscope, General Secretary – The International Society for Otology – the Politzer Society, Attending – Department of Neurosurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Scientific Committee
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- Dr. Katrina Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S), Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences for Columbia University and the Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor in the Faculty of the University
- Dr. Linda Fried, Dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Senior Vice President of Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center, DeLamar Professor of Public Health
- Pr Benoît Gallix, Full Professor, American Hospital of Paris
- Dr. Riadh Caïd Essebsi, Cardiologist, President of the Medical Board of the American Hospital of Paris
- Prof. Loïc Josseran, Professor in Public Health at Raymond Poincaré Hospital (Garches), Dean of Simone Veil Medical College at the University Paris Saclay – Campus UVSQ
Speakers
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Prof. Philippe Amouyel
MD/PhD, Professor of Public Health at Lille University Hospital and CEO of the Fondation Alzheimer
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Prof. Katrina Armstrong
Chief Executive Officer, Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences, Columbia University; Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
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Dr. Louis J Aronne
MD, FACP, FTOS, DABOM Sanford I. Weill Professor of Metabolic Research, Weill-Cornell Medical College
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Prof. Robert Barouki
Director, Inserm Institute of Public Health
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Mrs. Denise Campbell Bauer
Ambassador to the French Republic and the Principality of Monaco (TBC)
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Prof. John Beard
Irene Diamond Professor and Director, International Longevity Center - USA, Columbia University
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Prof. Daniel Benamouzig
CNRS Research Professor in Sociology, Holder of the Chair "Health" at Sciences Po
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Dr. Riadh Caïd Essebsi
Cardiologist, President of the Medical Board at the American Hospital of Paris
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Dr. Suzette Delaloge
Medical oncologist, breast cancer specialist, head of the personalized cancer prevention “ Interception” programme at Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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Dr. Marie-Josée Duran
PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Fondation Pour l’Audition
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Prof. Alain Fischer
Emeritus professor at Collège de France (Claude Bernard chair)
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Prof. Bernard Fraysse
Professor Emeritus, Past President of International Federation of Otorhinolaryngological Societies (IFOS)
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Prof. Linda Fried
Dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
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Prof. Gérard Friedlander
Executive Medical Director, American Hospital of Paris
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Prof. Benoît Gallix
Full Professor, American Hospital of Paris
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Alexandre Guenoun
Founder and CEO of KIRO
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Prof. Loïc Josseran
Professor in Public Health at Raymond Poincaré Hospital (Garches), Dean of Simone Veil Medical College at the University Paris Saclay – Campus UVSQ
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Prof. Yoon Kang
Richard P. Cohen, M.D. Professor of Medical Education, Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education, Weill Cornell Medicine
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Prof. Alexandre Loupy
Professor of Nephrology and Epidemiology at Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital - Paris Cité University, Director of the Inserm Translational Research Center on Organ Transplantation in Paris.
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Prof. Arnold Munnich
Pediatrician, Geneticist and President of the Imagine Foundation
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Prof. Ana Navas Acien
Professor and Incoming Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
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Dr. Dinh-Phong Nguyen
Deputy head of Prevention and Health promotion, National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM)
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M. Stéphane Roussel
President of the Board of Governors, American Hospital of Paris
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Prof. Philippe Ruszniewski
Dean of Université de Paris Medical School
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Prof. Mahasti Saghatchian
Oncologist, Head of Oncology, Vice-president of the Medical Board, American Hospital of Paris
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Prof. Larry Schwartz
Chair, Department of Radiology Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Professor of Radiology Weill Cornell Medical College
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Dr. Samuel H. Selesnick
Department of Otolaryngology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Senior US Medical Counselor to the American Hospital of Paris
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Prof. Robert Sigal
CEO of the American Hospital of Paris
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Prof. Benoît Vallet
Director general at Anses
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Prof. Bruno Vellas
Professor of Medicine , funded president IHU HealthAge