• Agenda   
• Participants   
• Meeting Synopsis   

Participants

James Anderson, Ph.D
Director
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health

Kristin Ardlie, Ph.D.
Director, Biological Samples Platform
The Broad Institute

Laura Barker
Research Coordinator
Virginia Commonwealth University

Patrick Bender, Ph.D.
Health Scientist Administrator
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health

Joy Boyer
Senior Program Analyst
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Philip Branton, M.D.
Consulting Pathologist
Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

Kevin Brown, M.D.
Professor
National Jewish Health

Stephen Buia
Deputy Program Director
SAIC-Frederick

Robin Burges
Project Manager
SAIC-Frederick

Carolyn Compton, M.D, Ph.D.
Director
Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

Mark Cosentino, Ph.D.
Project Manager
SAIC-Frederick

Nancy Cox, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Chicago

Camilla Day
HSA
National Human Genome Research Institute

David DeLuca, Ph.D.
Computational Biologist
The Broad Institute

Emmanouil Dermitzakis, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Geneva
Department of Genetic Medicine and Development
University of Geneva Medical School

Molly Donovan
Administrative Assistant
The Broad Institute

Kenyon Erickson
Quality Manager
SAIC-Frederick/Sapient

Timothée Flutre, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Chicago – INRA
Department of Human Genetics

Marie Fogarty, Ph.D.
Research Associate
University of North Carolina

Barbara Foster, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Jarlath M.H. Ffrench-Mullen, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow
University of Miami
Miller School of Medicine

Weiniu Gan, Ph.D.
Program Director
Genetics, Genomics, and Advanced Technologies
Division of Lung Diseases
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health

Ellen Gelfand
LDACC GTEx Project Manager
The Broad Institute

Gad Getz, Ph.D.
Director, Cancer Genome Computational Analysis
The Broad Institute

Erin Gover
Special Project Administrator
SAIC-Frederick

George Grant, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, Informatics, Genetic Analysis Platform
The Broad Institute

Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D.
Director
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Daniel Groelz, Ph.D.
Scientific Associate Director, Research and Development
QIAGEN

Roderic Guigó, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics and Genomics Program Coordinator
Center for Genomic Regulation

Mark Guyer, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Extramural Research
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Ross Hardison, Ph.D.
T. Ming Chu Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Pennsylvania State University
Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Penn State University

Stephen Hewitt, M.D, Ph.D.
Clinical Investigator
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

Tanya Hoodbhoy, Ph.D.
Program Director
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director
National Institutes of Health
Office of the Director

Thomas R. Insel, M.D.
Director
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health

Scott Jewell, Ph.D.
Deputy Director for Research Resources
Van Andel Research Institute

Misha Kapushesky, Ph.D.
Team Leader
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
European Bioinformatics Institute
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus

Mary Kennedy
Manager, Pathology
SAIC-Frederick
National Cancer Institute
The Cancer Human Biobank (caHUB)

Susan Koester, Ph.D.
Deputy Division Director
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health
Division of Neuroscience and Basic Behavioral Science

Walter Koroshetz, M.D.
Deputy Director
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health

Greg Korzeniewski, Ph.D.
SAIC-Frederick Program Director, caHUB
SAIC-Frederick

Lindsey Kurland
Research Assistant
Virginia Commonwealth University

Jerry Lee, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

Jeffrey Leek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Roger Little, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health

Jun Liu, Ph.D.
Professor
Harvard University

Edmund Lo
Quality Assurance/Quality Control
National Disease Research Interchange

Nicole Lockhart, Ph.D.
Program Manager
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

John Lonsdale, Ph.D.
Research Director
National Disease Research Interchange

Harold Magazine, Ph.D.
Vice President
Science Care

Mark McCarthy, M.D.
Robert Turner Professor of Diabetes
University of Oxford

Paul McFarlane
Contracting Officer
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health

Leonie Misquitta, Ph.D.
Functional Lead, Source Sites
SAIC-Frederick

Maghboeba Mosavel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University
 
Michael Moser, Ph.D.
HRI Scientist
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Sara Mostafavi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University

Sreenath Nampally
TPMI
SAIC-Frederick

Cathy Ng
Scientific Program Analyst
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Dan Nicolae, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The University of Chicago
Department of Medicine
Section of Genetic Medicine

Rebecca Pentz, Ph.D.
Professor of Research Ethics
Emory University School of Medicine

Rebecca Phillips
Data Coordinator
National Disease Research Interchange

Jonathan Pritchard, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Chicago

Lynne Rainen, Ph.D.
Scientific Director
PreAnalytiX

David Rimm, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Yale University
School of Medicine

James Robb, M.D.
Consulting Pathologist
National Cancer Institute

Nancy Roche, Ph.D.
Project Manager
SAIC-Frederick

Dan Rohrer
Director of Operations,
Program for Biospecimen Science
Van Andel Research Institute

Michael Salvatore
GTEx Manager
National Disease Research Interchange

John Satterlee, Ph.D.
Program Director
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institutes of Health

Sherilyn Sawyer, Ph.D.
Program Manager
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

Andrey Shabalin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Sabor Shad
Eye and Tissue Manager
National Disease Research Interchange

Charles Shive
Informatics Architect
SAIC-Frederick

Laura Siminoff, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Virginia Commonwealth University

Anna Smith, Ph.D.
Regulatory Affairs Manager
SAIC-Frederick

Leslie Sobin, M.D.
Director of Pathology
caHUB
National Institutes of Health

Pothur Srinivas, M.D.
Program Director
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health

Matthew Stephens, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Chicago

Jeff Struewing, M.D.
Program Coordinator
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Susan Sullivan, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President of Operations
Upstate New York Transplant Services

John Syron
Director of Operations
Science Care

David Tabor
Chief Engineer, caHUB
SAIC-Frederick

Jeffrey Thomas
Director of Donor Services
National Disease Research Interchange

Alexander Thomson
Informatics Group Leader, Biological Samples Platform
The Broad Institute

Heather Traino, Ph.D.
Instructor
Virginia Commonwealth University

Stacey Turner
Contract Specialist
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health

Jim Vaught, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health

Simona Volpi, Ph.D.
Program Director, GTEx
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Xiaoquan Wen
Research Assistant
University of Chicago

Kris Wetterstrand
Scientific Liaison to the Director
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health

Elizabeth Wilder, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Strategic Coordination
National Institutes of Health

Wendy Winckler, Ph.D.
Director, Genetic Analysis Platform
The Broad Institute

Fred Wright
Professor
University of North Carolina

Yin Yao, Ph.D.
Chief, Unit of Statistical Genetics
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health

Taylor Young
Clinical Data Manager
The Broad Institute

Jun Zhu, Ph.D.
Director
Sage Bionetworks

Angela Zimmerman
Clinical Research Manager
SAIC-Frederick

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