Dr Manuel Corpas, Lecturer in Genomics, has been named as a member of the Precision Medicine Committee at the Illustrious Official College of Clinicians of Madrid (ICOMEM), one of the most important Colleges of Clinicians in Spain.
The ICOMEM groups together all the doctors who practise legally in Madrid. It was founded in 1893, with its first president being Julián Calleja Sánchez.
The College created the Precision Medicine Committee in October 2022, through the signing of an agreement by the president of ICOMEM, Dr Manuel Martínez-Sellés, and the president of the Committee, Dr Fernando Vidal-Vanaclocha.
Precision medicine looks at the genetics, environment, and lifestyle of a person in order to select a treatment that could work best for them. The objective of the new Precision Medicine Committee is therefore to contribute to the development of care in this new way of practising medicine.
The Precision Medicine Committee is the sixth committee constituted in the ICOMEM and is made up of professionals, including Dr Corpas, who have contributed to the development and adoption of precision medicine through their clinical practice, research, and academic activity.
Speaking about becoming a member of the Committee, Dr Corpas said: “My appointment to the Precision Medicine Committee at the Illustrious Official College of Clinicians of Madrid is a further sign of how institutions at the highest level recognise the importance of adopting data-rich science as a critical element of the future of healthcare. This appointment will bring Westminster’s science research carried out in London closer to Madrid and vice versa.”
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