#EBW24 previews: Keynote with Dr. Gillian Bartlett

We are delighted that the second day keynote of #EBW24 will be delivered by Dr. Gillian Bartlett, from the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri. The subject of the keynote will be ‘Biobanking with Underrepresented Populations: The Critical Role of Participant Engagement’.

Dr. Gillian Bartlett

Dr. Gillian Bartlett is the Associate Dean for Graduate Research Education at the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri where she is also a tenured Professor in Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology and the Director for the Translational Biosciences PhD program.  Before being recruited to the US, she was a full tenured professor at McGill University holding the position of Associate Chair (Research) and Graduate Program Director in Family Medicine for over 10 years. In 2022, she was awarded the Distinguished Research Mentor Award by the North American Primary Care Research Group. For the last three years, Dr. Bartlett was the Chair of the Working Party for the Patient-Reported Indicator Surveys Project with the OECD involving 22 countries for this inaugural project in primary care (https://www.oecd.org/health/paris/).

Dr. Bartlett specialises in implementation science for translation of evidence into clinical practice.  Her current concentration is on convergence science and stakeholder engagement around health care utilisation and outcomes for vulnerable populations; implementation of precision medicine using patient-oriented strategies; and the use of education innovations to advance the discipline of translational biomedicine. Dr. Bartlett was recently awarded, as Principle Investigator for Missouri, funding from the NIH All of Us program for the All of Us Heartland Consortium.