Speaker Profile
M.D., Director of Genetic Medicine and Friedland Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Biography
The current Director of Genetic Medicine and Friedland Professor at MMI, Dr. Rahman formerly served as Division Director for Medical Genetics and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). He also was the founding director of UMMC’s Center of Genetic Medicine. Dr. Rahman’s practice is focused primarily on adult and pediatric patients in a general genetics clinic as well as inpatient consults for pediatrics, prenatal, and adult genetics. He also has taught genetics to first-year medical students with a focus on genetic principles, common genetic conditions, and pharmacogenetics.
Talk
Personalizing Medicine with Artificial Intelligence and Facial Analysis
Dr. Omar Abdul-Rahman will discuss the important role technologies that can capture and evaluate phenotypic data play in the future of healthcare and disease understanding.
