This webinar will provide a detailed overview of how a leading children’s hospital made precision medicine part of its standard of care for rare disorders.

Children’s National Health System, located in Washington, DC, is one of the top five children’s hospitals in the country, according to US News & World Report. Starting initially by bringing genetic testing in-house for enhanced care quality and efficiency, the system’s Laboratory Medicine and Genetics & Metabolism divisions now make up one of the largest clinical genetics programs in the United States, bringing precision medicine diagnostics and therapeutics to children with rare disorders.

In this session, you will learn how Children’s National Health System:

• Made clinical and technical considerations before bringing genetic testing in-house
• Evaluated challenges and opportunities associated with starting and scaling an in-house genetic testing program\
• Launched a first-of-its-kind center to target care and treatment of children with rare disorders.