Title:P4 Medicine Needs P4 Education
Volume: 20
Issue: 38
Author(s): Alfredo Cesario, Charles Auffray, Patrizia Russo and Leroy Hood
Affiliation:
Keywords:
Educational perspective, NCDs, P4 medicine, systems medicine.
Abstract: This monographic issue of Current Pharmacological Design discusses extensively on the innovative paradigms for disease
control in Active and Healthy Ageing. Wellness, as a status to be achieved and maintained in our lives, getting longer and hopefully
healtier, is the new and comprehensive declination of “health” itself, leading the shaping of research and research policy in the health
domain worldwide. Many of the contributions describe the state of the art –and beyond- approaches for the most common diseases based
on the available medical knowledge; two, in particular (Bousquet J et al., Cesario A, et al.), extend to the innovative approaches defined
in the framework of the holistic and integrative philosophy of the Predictive, Preventive, Personalized and Participatory (P4) Systems
Medicine.
The availability of more and more powerful technologies to extract data coupled with the inclusion of information coming from the nonstrictly-
medical sphere of the patient/individual and his/her lifestyle along with the increase in computational power, will definitely set
the stage for a paradigm-shift in bio-medicine with deep ethical and societal impact. The brief comment that follows speculates about the
implications of this transition from the educational perspective taking stock of the direct experience of the Authors in the consultation
process active in the scientific community.