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Avera And Orthopedic Partners Introduce Personalized Medicine

Avera and its orthopedic partners in Sioux Falls and Mitchell, S.D., today (12/19) announced plans to offer personalized medicine for post-surgical pain management in patients undergoing elective orthopedic surgery. Personalized medicine is a term which describes the use of genetic analysis to better manage a patient’s disease. In this case, the genetic analysis is a “snapshot” of how the liver metabolizes medication. Pharmacogenomics, an area of personalized medicine, is a novel, targeted approach that helps health care practitioners prescribe the best medication before treatment even begins. Krista Bohlen, PharmD, RPh, Research Pharmacist with Avera Institute for Human Genetics, and Gareth Davies, PhD scientific director with Avera Institute for Human Genetics, discussed the topic on Innovation.