“What we provide is care, from even before birth all the way through geriatrics—with the same team, including pediatric and adult hematologists,” said Catherine McGuinn, MD, Director of the Comprehensive Center for Hemophilia and Coagulation Disorders at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Phyllis and David Komansky Center for Children’s Health at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City.

In his State of the Union address in January 2015, President Barak Obama announced the launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative, whose mission is “To enable a new era of medicine through research, technology and policies that empower patients, researchers and providers to work together toward development of individualized treatments.”