Speakers
2012 Distinguished Faculty
Sandy Aronson, Executive Director of IT, Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine (PCPGM)
Arindam Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., CEO and Founder, Parabase Genomics
Diana Bianchi, M.D., Executive Director, Mother Infant Research Institute; Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pediatrics, Floating Hospital for Children, Tufts Medical Center
Cinnamon Bloss, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Director, Social Sciences and Bioethics, Scripps Translational Science Institute
Alexis Borisy, Partner, Third Rock Ventures
John Boyce, President and CEO, GnuBio
Barrett Bready, President and CEO, Nabsys, Inc.
Mike Cariaso, Founder, SNPedia; Author of Promethease
Kenneth Chahine, Ph.D., J.D., Senior Vice President and General Manager, DNA, ancestry.com
Michael Christman, Ph.D., President & CEO, Coriell Institute for Medical Research
George Church, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics and Director of the Center for Computational Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Cindy Crowninshield, RD, LDN, Licensed Registered Dietitian, Body Therapeutics & Sodexo; Founder, Eat2BeWell & Eat4YourGenes; Conference Director, Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Kevin Davies, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, Bio-IT World
Chris Dwan, Principal Investigator and Director, Professional Services, BioTeam
Andrew C. Fish, Executive Director, AdvaMedDx
Dennis Gilbert, Ph.D., Founder, President and CEO, VitaPath Genetics
Rosalynn Gill, Ph.D., Vice President, Clinical Affairs, Boston Heart Diagnostics
Steve Gullans, Managing Director, Excel Venture Management
Don Hardison, President & CEO, Good Start Genetics, Inc.
Richard Kellner, Founder and President, Genome Health Solutions, Inc.
Robert Klein, Ph.D., Chief Business Development Officer, Complete Genomics
Isaac S. Kohane, M.D., Ph.D., Henderson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Director, Countway Library of Medicine; Director, i2b2 National Center for Biomedical Computing; Co-Director, HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics
Stan Lapidus, President, CEO and Founder, SynapDx
Ronald Lindsay, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Research & Development, Sequenom
Greg Lucier, Chief Executive Officer, Life Technologies
Gholson Lyon, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Human Genetics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Research Scientist, Utah Foundation for Biomedical Research
Daniel MacArthur, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital; Co-founder, Genomes Unzipped
Craig Martin, Chief Executive Officer, Feinstein Kean Healthcare
James McCullough, CEO and Founder, Exosome Diagnostics
Kevin McKernan, CSO, Courtagen Life Sciences
Neil A. Miller, Director of Informatics, Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine, Children’s Mercy Hospital
Paul Morrison, Ph.D., Laboratory Director, Molecular Biology Core Facilities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Geert-Jan Mulder, M.D., General Partner, Forbion Capital
Steve Murphy, M.D., Managing Partner, Wellspring Total Health
Michael Murray, M.D., Clinical Chief, Genetics Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Instructor, Harvard Medical School, The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center
Brian T. Naughton, Ph.D., Founding Scientist, 23andMe
Nathan Pearson, Ph.D., Director of Research, Knome, Inc.
Michael S. Phillips, Ph.D., Canada Research Chair in Translational Pharmacogenomics; Director, Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Montreal Heart Institute; Associate Professor, Université de Montréal
John Quackenbush, Ph.D., Professor, Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Cancer Biology Center for Cancer Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Martin G. Reese, President and CEO, Omicia
Heidi L. Rehm, Ph.D., FACMG, Chief Laboratory Director, Molecular Medicine, Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine (PCPGM); Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Meredith Salisbury, Senior Consultant, Bioscribe
Marc Salit, Group Leader, Biochemical Science and Multiplexed Biomolecular Science, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Lee Silver, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Affairs; Faculty Associate, Science, Technology & Environmental Policy Program, Office of Population Research, and the Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
John Stark, Vice President, Clinical and Applied Markets, Life Technologies
Jamie Streator, Managing Director, Healthcare Investment Banking, Cowen & Company
Joseph V. Thakuria, M.D., MMSc, Attending Physician in Clinical and Biochemical Genetics Medical Genetics, Massachusetts General Hospital; Medical Director, Personal Genome Project; Harvard Catalyst Translational Genetics and Bioinformatics Program, MGH Center for Human Genetics Research
Samuil R. Umansky, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., Co-founder, CSO, and President, DiamiR LLC
David A. Weitz, Ph.D., Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences