Summary Second National Conference on Genetics and Disease Prevention

List of Speakers

• Edward Baker, MD, MPH, Assistant Surgeon General of the United States and Director, Public Health Practice Program Office, CDC
• Kate C. Beardsley, JD, Partner, Buc & Beardsley, Washington, DC
• George Benjamin, Secretary, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
• Wylie Burke, MD, PhD, Director, Women’s Health Care Center, University of Washington
• Toby Citrin, JD, Director, Office of Community-Based Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
• Francis Collins, MD, PhD, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
• Morris W. Foster, PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
• Claude Earl Fox, MD, MPH, Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration
• Carol Green, MD, Congressional Fellow, Staff to Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
• Ellen Gritz, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Behavioral Science, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
• James Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM, Principal Investigator, Genetics Legislation: Syntax, Science and Policy, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
• Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, Director, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC
• Muin J. Khoury, MD, PhD, Director, Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention, CDC
• Ken Kinzler, PhD, Associate Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Baltimore, Maryland
• Victor Penchaszadeh, MD, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York
• Kristin Peterson, Genetics Counselor, Department of Finance, State of Minnesota
• Clifton A. Poodry, PhD, Director, Division of Minority Opportunities in Research, National Institute of General Medicine Sciences, NIH
• William Raub, PhD, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Policy, DHHS
• Charmaine Royal, PhD, Cancer Research Center, NIH
• Sam Sheker, Associate Administrator, Field Operations, HRSA
• Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, 28th Congressional District, New York State
• Eva Sujansky, MD, Co-director of the Division of Genetic Services at the Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
• Peter van Dyck, MD, MPH, Acting Associate Administrator, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, HRSA
• Michael S. Watson, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, Washington University - St. Louis
• Gillian Woollett, PhD, Assistant Vice President, Biologics, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Washington, DC
• Scott Zeger, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health

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