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Roster of the National Advisory Council For Human Genome Research

Sitting (l-r): Mark Guyer, Michael Boehnke, David Page, Eric Boerwinkle, and Alan Guttmacher. Second Row (l-r): Richard Weinshilboum, David Valle, Pilar Ossorio, Caryn Lerman, Paul Sternberg, Patrice Milos, Pearl O'Rourke, Richard Myers, and Geoffrey Ginsburg. Back Row (l-r): Richard Cooper, Rex Chisholm, Richard Gibbs, Mark Chee, Jorge Contreras, and Claire Fraser-Liggett.
National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, February 2009
Chairperson

Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D., Ph.D.
Acting Director
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health
31 Center Drive
Building 31, Room 4B09
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: (301) 496-0844
Fax: (301) 402-0837
E-mail: guttmach@mail.nih.gov



Members

(Term expiration date in parentheses)

Michael Boehnke, Ph.D.
Richard G. Cornell Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan
1420 Washington Heights, SPH II, Room M4108
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 -2029
Phone: (734) 936-1001
Fax: (734) 615-8322
E-mail: boehnke@umich.edu

Eric Boerwinkle, Ph.D. (9/30/2009)
Professor and Director
Human Genetics Center & Division of Epidemiology
The University of Texas School of Public Health
The University of Texas
1200 Herman Pressler Driv
Suite E-447
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: (713) 500-9816
Fax: (713) 500-0900
E-mail: Eric.Boerwinkle@uth.tmc.edu

Mark Chee, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Prognosys Biosciences
505 Coast Boulevard South
Suite 310
La Jolla, CA 92037
Phone: (858) 459-2428 ext: 301
Fax: (858) 459- 2429
E-mail: mchee@prognosysbio.com

Rex Chisholm, Ph.D.
Adam & Richard T. Lind Professor of Medical Genetics and Dean for Research
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
303 E. Superior Street, Lurie 7-125
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312 503-3209
Fax: 312 503-5603
E-mail: r-chisholm@northwestern.edu

Jorge L. Contreras, Jr., J.D. (9/30/2010)
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP
1875 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 663-6872
Fax: (202) 663-6363
E-mail: jorge.contreras@wilmerhale.com

Richard Cooper, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology
Loyola University Medical School
2160 South First Avenue
Maywood, IL 60153
Phone: (708) 327-9010
Fax: (708) 327-9009
E-mail: Rcooper@lumc.edu

Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, Ph.D. (09/30/2011)
Director, Institute of Genome Sciences
Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine
University of Maryland
801 W. Baltimore Street
Suite 638
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone: (410) 706-2396
Fax: (410) 706-1482
E-mail: cmfraser@som.umaryland.edu

Richard A. Gibbs, Ph.D. (9/30/2010)
Director
Human Genome Sequencing Center
Wofford Cain Professor of Molecular & Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza, N1519, MS226
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: (713) 798-6539
Fax: (713) 798-5741
E-mail: agibbs@bcm.edu

Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, MD, Ph.D. (09/30/2011)
Director, Center for Genomic Medicine
Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP)
Duke University
101 Science Drive
DUMC Box 3382
Durham, NC 27708
Phone: (919) 668-6210
Fax: (919) 668-6202
E-mail: geoffrey.ginsburg@duke.edu

Caryn Lerman, Ph.D. (9/30/2009)
Mary W. Calkins Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3535 Market Street, Suite 4100
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
Phone: (215) 746-7141
Fax: (215) 746-7140
E-mail: clerman@mail.med.upenn.edu

Patrice M. Milos, Ph.D. (9/30/2009)
Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer
Helicos BioSciences Corporation
One Kendall Square, Building 200
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 264-1897
Fax: (617) 264-1797
E-mail: pmilos@helicosbio.com

Richard M. Myers, Ph.D.
Director and President
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
601 Genome Way
Huntsville, AL 35806
Phone: 256 327-0431
Fax: 256 327-0978
E-mail: rmyers@hudsonalpha.org

Patricia Pearl O'Rourke, M.D.
Director, Human Research Affairs
Partners HealthCare Systems, Inc.
50 Staniford Street, Suite 1001
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: (617) 724-2731 Fax: (617) 726-3246 E-mail: Porourke@partners.org

Pilar N. Ossorio, Ph.D., J.D. (09/30/2011)
Associate Professor of Law & Bioethics
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Law Building
975 Bascom Mall, Room: 9103
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 263-4387
Fax: (608) 262-5485
E-mail: pnossorio@wisc.edu

David C. Page, M.D. (9/30/2009)
Director, Whitehead Institute
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Nine Cambridge Center, Room 461
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: (617) 258-5203
Fax: (617) 258-5578
E-mail: page_admin@wi.mit.edu

Paul W. Sternberg Jr., Ph.D. (9/30/2009)
Thomas Hunt Morgan Professor of Biology
HHMI and Division of Biology
California Institute of Technology
1200 East California Boulevard
Division of Biology 156-29
Pasadena, CA 91125
Phone: (626) 395-2181
Fax: (626) 568-8012
E-mail: pws@caltech.edu

David Valle, M.D. (09/30/2011)
Henry J. Knott Professor and Director of the Institute of Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
733 N Broadway
BRB 519
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (410) 955-4260
Fax: (410) 955-7397
E-mail: dvalle2@jhmi.edu

Richard Weinshilboum, M.D. (9/30/2010)
Dasburg Professor of Cancer Genomics Research
Professor of Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics and Medicine
Mayo Medical School
200 First Street, SW
Rochester, MN 55905
Phone: (507) 284-2246
Fax: (507) 284-4455
E-mail: weinshilboum.richard@mayo.edu

Executive Secretary

Mark S. Guyer, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Extramural Research
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health
5635 Fishers Lane, MSC 9305
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone: (301) 496-7531
Fax: (301) 480-2770
E-mail: guyerm@mail.nih.gov

Liaisons

Joann A. Boughman, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President
American Society of Human Genetics
9650 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone: (301) 634-7307
Fax: (301) 634-4310
E-mail: jboughman@ashg.org

R. Rodney Howell, M.D.
American College of Medical Genetics
Professor of Pediatrics
Leonard Miller School of Medicine
University of Miami
The Metropolitan, Suite 1219
7620 Old Georgetown Road
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone: (301) 451-2138
Fax: (301) 480-4520
E-mail: rhowell@miami.edu

Sharon J. Olsen, M.S., R.N., A.O.C.N.
Assistant Professor
International Society of Nurses in Genetics
Johns Hopkins University
School of Nursing
525 N. Wolfe Street, Room 417
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (410) 614-2644
Fax: (410) 955-0466 Fax
E-mail: olsen@son.jhmi.edu

Rhonda L. Schonberg, M.S.
National Society of Genetic Counselors
Coordinator, Center for Prenatal Evaluation
Children's National Medical Center
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010
Phone: (202) 476-4166
Fax: (202) 476-2390
E-mail: rlschonb@cnmc.org

Sharon F. Terry, M.A.
President and CEO
Genetic Alliance
4301 Connecticut Ave, NW
Suite 404
Washington, DC 20010
Phone: (202) 966-5557 x201
Fax: (202) 966-8553
E-mail: sterry@geneticalliance.org

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