Editor-in-Chief
- Olga Golubnitschaja, University of Bonn
Managing Editor
- Kristina Yeghiazaryan, University of Bonn
Society affiliations
The EPMA Journal is of the official journal of the European Association for Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine.
Articles
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Review
EPMA Journal 2013, 4:16 (14 June 2013)Predictive, preventive, personalised and participatory periodontology: 'the 5Ps age' has already started
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Research
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Review
EPMA Journal 2013, 4:14 (7 June 2013)The primary vascular dysregulation syndrome: implications for eye diseases
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Review
EPMA Journal 2013, 4:13 (11 May 2013)Personalized medicine: myth or reality? The position of Russian clinical pharmacologists
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Review
EPMA Journal 2013, 4:12 (10 May 2013)Position paper of the EPMA and EFLM: a global vision of the consolidated promotion of an integrative medical approach to advance health care
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Editorial
EPMA Journal 2013, 4:11 (28 March 2013)The EPMA Journal introduces a new type of research article dedicated to predictive, preventive and personalised medicine -
Review
EPMA Journal 2013, 4:10 (26 March 2013)Promoting Darfuri women’s psychosocial health: developing a war trauma counsellor training programme tailored to the person
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Review
EPMA Journal 2013, 4:8 (26 February 2013)An overview of the health care system in Georgia: expert recommendations in the context of predictive, preventive and personalised medicine
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Review
EPMA Journal 2013, 4:7 (25 February 2013)Pitfalls and limitations in translation from biomarker discovery to clinical utility in predictive and personalised medicine
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The Mission of The EPMA Journal
The paradigm change from late and delayed interventional to predictive, preventive and personalized medicine (PPPM) is a leading global challenge in the 21st century. Of paramount importance is the communication among professionals - medical doctors, biotechnologists, computer scientists, healthcare providers, policy-makers, educators, and so on. The overall concept in the field is coordinated by the European Association for Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine (EPMA), which is active in more than 40 countries in Europe and worldwide. A letter of support from the Organization of United Nations (UNO) placed emphasis on advances in medical research, training and care as the "key to realizing the Millennium Development Goals and to advancing public health". Furthermore, the UNO values EPMA efforts in contributing to developments in the medical field towards common goals of improving the healthcare and does not doubt that EPMA serves as a strong platform for medical innovation in support of the shared objectives. The Vice-Secretary General of UNO welcomes "in particular, the focus on collaboration with international organizations, which can serve to link the work of the EPMA with the efforts of the international community for global public health". Therefore, the mission of The EPMA Journal is to inform the readers about progress in innovative medical sciences.
Aims & scope
The EPMA Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal offering high quality reviews of particular educational value and broad dissemination to the scientific world, healthcare industry and public. The journal promotes a new philosophy in healthcare: the paradigm change from delayed interventional to predictive, preventive and personalized medicine (PPPM).
EPMA Summit and World Congress 2013
EPMA is pleased to announce that the EPMA Summit and World Congress 2013 will take place in Brussels. The EPMA Summit will be held in the EU Parliament on 19 September 2013. This will be followed by the EPMA World Congress, which will take place at the Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) to the European Union from 19 to 21 September 2013. The congress will bring together PPPM professionals and decision makers such as the representatives of the EU Parliament and EU Commission. PPPM-related initiatives and long-term projects for "Horizon 2020" will be presented. For details please visit the EPMA website.
Featured interview
An interview with Editor-in-Chief, Olga Golubnitschaja, in which she discusses the integrative approach to medicine at the Semmelweis Symposium.
The EPMA book series
The Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine book series, published by Springer in collaboration with EPMA, provides an overview to multidisciplinary aspects of advanced biomedical approaches and innovative technologies for healthcare applications. The integration of individual professional groups into the overall concept of PPPM is a particular advantage of this book series.
Editor's quote
Olga Golubnitschaja
"Optimistic versus pessimistic prognosis in future developments of the healthcare sector depends much on diagnostic, preventive and treatment approaches which healthcare will preferably adopt in the near future. Without innovation in healthcare, chronic disorders can cause such a dramatic level of burden that any performance of personalized medicine will not be feasible from an economic point of view. In contrast, effective utilization of advanced early/predictive diagnostics and targeted prevention could enable rapidly aging populations in Europe to be economically effective for the society. Therefore, it is timely to consider the integrative medical approaches to advance healthcare utilizing the innovation by functional links within PPPM, such as predictive diagnostics as the basis for concomitant targeted prevention, patient profiling - for individualized treatment algorithms and medical approaches tailored to the patient. In this context, The EPMA Journal promotes this 'three-dimensional' vision in medical approaches, namely predictive, preventive and personalized medicine".
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