—Bill Davenhall
This presentation will focus on the use of geographic information that informs personalized medicine. For decades, public health researchers have been documenting the negative and untoward health impacts that our natural and man-made environments have created in the various places we live, work, and seek recreation. This presentation will review the major evidence and impetus for medicine to incorporate geographically richer personal place histories as part of diagnostic protocols and the electronic health record. This presentation will identify geographic information tools that can improve the disease discovery process as well as recommend approaches to how our medical doctors can benefit from the use of geographically enhanced health information.