Summary - Genetic Testing : Implications for your future

Understanding the Issues

Genetic testing brings great promise for amazing new discoveries in modern medicine. It also brings up many complex legal and ethical issues that will affect nearly everyone providing or receiving health care or health care insurance in the not-so-distant future.

Are You Prepared?

Recently, the Actuarial Foundation co-sponsored the enormously successful symposium, Genetic Testing: Implications for Insurance. For the first time ever, this two-day session created a common platform for professionals from all sides of this compelling issue to present the most current and relevant information — information that could be vital to the future of your career. The symposium also fostered stimulating discussions about the ethical and legal dilemmas surrounding genetic testing, such as:

• Who should undergo genetic testing?
• How will genetic testing affect family members?
• Who will have access to an individual’s genetic information?
• What defines “genetic information?”
• How will genetic test results affect an individual’s insurance rates?
• How can we deal with the potential for “genetic discrimination?”

Recognizing the importance of these timely issues, the Actuarial Foundation is proud to announce the release of a new publication that captures the message and spirit of these energized discussions — Genetic Testing: Implications for Insurance. Don’t miss your last chance to be included in this event!

Touching All Our Lives

These issues will affect nearly everyone. Redefining risk classification, based upon the use or non-use of genetic information, concerns health care providers and consumers, insurers and the insured. Genetic Testing: Implications for Insurance takes the first steps toward resolving these complex issues by identifying them and presenting information vital to professionals throughout the field.

Genetic Testing: Implications for Insurance is an absolute must-read for:

• Physicians
• Health Care Providers
• Genetic Counselors
• Insurance Lawyers
• Health Insurance Providers
• Underwriters
• Medical Directors
• Geneticists
• Actuaries
• Legislators
• Ethicists
• Regulators

Genetic Testing: Implications for Insurance gives you a timely, comprehensive look at the issues from all sides.

The symposium, Genetic Testing: Implications for Insurance, was co-sponsored by:

• MetLife Medical Department
• University of Pennsylvania - Health System/Center for Bioethics
• The Actuarial Foundation

Genetic Testing: Implications for Insurance presents tomorrow’s most compelling issues in an engaging and meaningful way. Don’t miss the opportunity to share in this groundbreaking event — Order Today!

Listen to What Symposium Attendees Had to Say...

“I was most impressed by the mutual attention to the concerns of symposium participants from different fields and the sincerity of the effort to develop an ethically sound and responsible position on genetic testing.”

Rosamond Rhodes, Ph.D.
Director of Bioethics Education/Associate Professor
Department of Medical Education, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

“I rate your symposium on Genetic Testing: Implications for Insurance as 5-star!”

Patrick B. Storey
Professor of Medicine/Associate Dean
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

“This was an example of leadership within the insurance community which was long overdue. I believe the industry made significant strides forward towards resolving this contentious issue.”

Robert J. Pokorski, MD, FACP
Vice President, Worldwide Medical Research and Development
Cologne Life Reinsurance Company

“The result was an astonishing burst of creative ideas and discussion.”

James C. Hickman, FSA, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor and Dean
Actuarial Science, Risk Management, and Insurance Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison