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Watch: Louis Fiore on how the VA is becoming a learning health care system

Publish date: February 25, 2016

 

Federal Practitioner talks one-on-one with Louis Fiore, MD, MPH, the executive director of the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), which the VA created as 1 of 3 epidemiological research centers. At MAVERIC Fiore is spearheading a precision oncology program, which is developing precision oncology best practices; enhancing patient and provider engagement; and fostering collaboration among the VA, National Cancer Institute, academia, and other health care systems to provide cancer patients with access to clinical trial participation.

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