AIMday Precisionsmedicin generated ideas for the future of healthcare

Uppsala, healthcare, research, business, and politics met during AIMday, with the theme of precision medicine at SciLifeLab. A wide range of experts and stakeholders shared different perspectives to explore solutions for future challenges in healthcare. Among other things, professionals from Uppsala University Hospital and Uppsala University had the opportunity to come closer together and work on actual needs and challenges together – which is one of the missions of the Precision Medicine Centre Uppsala (PMCU).

“One goal of the Precision Medicine Centre Uppsala is to bring academia and healthcare closer together to create new opportunities for precision medicine. For Uppsala, a day like this means that we can gather around concrete challenges that exist in healthcare and start working together to solve them. It also strengthens Uppsala’s network and provides an even better understanding of the perspectives, experiences and knowledge of the organisations,” says Theodora Kunovac Kallak, Acting Director at the Precision Medicine Centre Uppsala (PMCU).

The patients of the future are the winners

the day, workshops were held based on the questions that the participants had submitted in advance. One of the highlights of the day was the question ‘How should healthcare manage a future screening of children for type 1 diabetes’. There were representatives of the patient perspective, companies, politicians, researchers and medical doctors. The discussions there showed how different areas must work together. Healthcare and research need to strengthen cooperation to better understand the conditions for each other’s activities.

“There was a good turnout with many important representatives, which allowed us to have a fruitful discussion on this important topic,” says Henrik Hill, Paediatric Specialist at Uppsala University Hospital.

Lina Nordquist, spokesperson on social and healthcare policy for Liberalerna, participated during the day:

“Precision medicine encompasses countless dimensions and affects people, but partial solutions can rarely be identified and put on the table as quickly as today. I am convinced that future patients, both in Sweden and abroad, will benefit from the conversations held here today. Each of us holds important pieces of the puzzle, but none of us sees the whole picture. AIMday is an ingenious way to creatively and effectively design solutions that our residents need. In addition, new partnerships seemed to be forming even before the meeting ended,” says Lina Nordquist.

Good ideas ahead

AIMday provides an opportunity to focus on concrete challenges in healthcare and begin working together to address them. It strengthens networks and creates an even better understanding of each other’s experiences and knowledge. A day like this provides new perspectives and ways forward, according to Theodora:

“I bring with me a lot of positive energy and several good concrete opportunities to be able to put some important pieces of the puzzle into the big ‘precision medicine puzzle’,” concludes Theodora Kunovac Kallak.

Ebba Burman