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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 73-86

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From page 73...
... The team works with Partners HealthCare Information Systems to maintain the integration between GeneInsight Clinic and the Partners HealthCare electronic health record. In addition to GeneInsight, the team developed the original GIGPAD system to support laboratory processing, including its case management system component; it is developing an Olego management system; and it assists the Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine Bioinformatics Team in the development and maintenance of bioinformatic pipeline infrastructure.
From page 74...
... As a consultant to the Genetic Alliance and its Patient Powered Research Network project, she is participating as a member of the Data Standards, Security, and Network Infrastructure Task Force of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute National Clinical Research Network project. Since 2009, Dr.
From page 75...
... Rapid-learning initiatives are now generating comparative effectiveness research, a national system of learning networks and research registries covering more than 150 million patients, national biobanks with linked electronic health record and genomic data, a new Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center (with $10 billion of funds) , rapid-learning systems for cancer care and pediatrics, and a new National Science Foundation–supported science of learning systems.
From page 76...
... Before coming to the University of Michigan, Dr. Friedman held executive positions at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
From page 77...
... Prior to working at Duke he was at Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc., where he was vice president of molecular and personalized medicine and was responsible for developing pharmacogenomic and biomarker strategies for therapeutics. He serves as an expert panel member for Genome Canada, as a member of the Board of External Experts for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, as co-chair of the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on GenomicBased Research for Health, as a member of the advisory council for the National Center for Accelerating Translational Science, as co-chair of the Cures Acceleration Network, as an advisor to the Pharmacogenetics Research Network, and as a member of the World Economics Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Health Sector.
From page 78...
... She is a principal investigator in the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics, or eMERGE, and the Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research consortia. Andrew Kasarskis, Ph.D., is the vice chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and the co-director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai Hospital.
From page 79...
... He has served on numerous clinical committees during his more than two decades as an emergency medicine physician, and he has been a key collaborator on significant organizational initiatives, including The University of Vermont Medical Center's regional ST elevation myocardial infarction project, an innovative program to ensure heart attack victims receive lifesaving care as rapidly as possible. A past president of the Vermont Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, Dr.
From page 80...
... Scott Moss leads the research informatics research-and-development team at Epic. His team focuses on designing and developing researchenabling functionality within Epic's software, including the integration of genomic data into the electronic health record.
From page 81...
... Previously as director of translational research at the Department of Veterans Affairs, he was responsible for managing the development of new research activities focusing on health systems improvements, genomic medicine, comparative effectiveness research, and traumatic brain injury. Previously he was director of the Institute of Medicine's Drug Forum and Clinical Research Roundtable.
From page 82...
... As a dual appointee within biomedical informatics and internal medicine, Dr. Peterson has played a pivotal role in developing and evaluating clinical decision support to improve drug safety and efficacy and to translate genomic technologies to routine clinical care.
From page 83...
... . He currently leads research funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Human Genome Research Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Pharmacogenomics Research Network to evaluate the implementation of PREDICT, including both clinical and cost effectiveness.
From page 84...
... Sam Shekar, M.D., M.P.H., is the chief medical officer within Northrop Grumman's information systems sector. In this capacity he provides strategic clinical direction for the health division and serves as an adviser to health care and public health organizations, government agencies, and customers and partners on technology and policy issues in the medical and public health fields.
From page 85...
... Board on Health Sciences Policy, the National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics board, and the International Rare Disease Research Consortium Interim Executive Committee, and she is co-chair of the IOM Roundtable on Translating Genomic-Based Research for Health. She is on the editorial boards of several journals.
From page 86...
... Jason Vassy, M.D., M.P.H., is a primary care physician and clinician– investigator at Harvard Medical School, the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. His research examines the clinical translation of genomic medicine to primary care settings, with a focus on how primary care physicians will use genomic technology in their medical decision making.


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