Patricia Brennan, PhD, MS, RN
Nursing
Dr. Patricia Brennan is an Associate Professor at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, California. She received her bachelor’s degrees from Emory University (psychology, 1981) and (nursing, 1983), and both her master’s degree (critical care/trauma/education, 1993) and PhD in nursing (health policy, 2008) from the University of California, San Francisco.
Her research interests include health policy issues related to access to care, particularly in regard to acuity based models of organ allocation and the application of genetic and genomic technologies in clinical practice. In addition, Dr. Brennan is currently assessing the outcomes of simulation and immersive learning through inter-professional education, particularly related to genomic education.
She was appointed as an NIH Faculty Champion in Genetics and Genomics, the goal of which is to provide leadership in curriculum integration of genetics and genomics. She serves as a member of the editorial board of the NIH Genetics/Genomics Competency Center (G2C2). Dr. Brennan has been recognized in her role as an educator locally being awarded the Faculty of the Year Award at Samuel Merritt University and nationally as an AACN Novice Faculty Award nominee. She is a Daisy Faculty Award Recipient recognizing her exceptional impact on nursing education.
Prior to entering academic education Dr. Brennan spent over 20 years as a clinical specialist, outreach director and divisional manager of the UCSF Transplant Division, where she had administrative responsibilities for the Immunogenetics and Transplantation Laboratory.
Dr. Brennan has been recognized as a Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow in the National Academies of Practice and recently completed a Health Policy Intensive with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing through which she hopes to bring a greater awareness to the health policy implications of genetic and genomic health care delivery.
Anne L. Ersig, PhD, RN
Nursing
Dr. Anne Ersig is an Assistant Professor in the University of Iowa College of Nursing. She graduated with her BSN and MSN from the University of Pennsylvania, and received her PhD in nursing, with a focus in genetics, from the University of Iowa College of Nursing. Dr. Ersig’s PhD was completed through a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, and focused on families at risk of Lynch syndrome who received indeterminate genetic test results. Her current research explores the biology and genomics of chronic stress.
Ed Michaud, Ph.D.
Physicians Assistant Studies
Dr. Ed Michaud is a Professor and the Director of Genetic Sciences for the School of Physician Assistant Studies at South College in Knoxville, Tennessee. He received his B.S. from the University of Central Florida (1979), his M.S. from Texas A&M; University (1984), and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee (1990).
He was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow and an Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in the Biology Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1991-1995). Dr. Michaud was a Senior Staff Scientist in the Mammalian Genetics and Genomics Group, Life Sciences Division, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee from 1996-2007. Dr. Michaud joined South College in 2007 and has integrated medical genetics and genomics education throughout the curriculum of the Masters of Health Science, Physician Assistant Studies Program.
Nguyen Park, MS, PA-C
Physicians Assistant Studies
Nguyen H. Park teaches Pediatrics at the University of New Mexico Physician Assistant Program, and is in charge of the Special Environmental Health Registry at the New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System (NMVAHCS), which encompasses the Agent Orange, Gulf War, Depleted Uranium, Toxic Embedded Fragments, and Ionizing Radiation Registries. Prior to this, she was a clinical Assistant Professor in the Physician Assistant Studies Program, Department of Healthcare Sciences at Wayne State University, and worked clinically in cardiology.
After graduating from the University of Michigan with dual degrees in neuropsychology and biology and working in biomedical research, she received a Masters of Science in Physician Assistant Studies from Wayne State University. She is a fellow of the New Mexico Academy of Physician Assistants, participating actively in NMAPA’s CME planning committee, and has lectured regionally and at the state level. She also serves on the NMVAHCS Minority Veterans Committee.
Megan Doerr, MS, CGC
Genetic Counseling
Megan Doerr, MS, CGC is the clinical lead for the Cleveland Clinic’s electronic family history practice tools. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont and her graduate degree in genetic counseling from Case Western Reserve University.
Meg’s professional interests center on enabling health information technology solutions to support consistent delivery of the highest standard of care to all patients. In addition to serving on the G2C2 editorial board, Meg is the founder and co-chair of the Health Information Technology special interest group (Health IT SIG) for the National Society of Genetic Counselors.
Angela Trepanier, MS, CGC
Genetic Counseling
Ms. Trepanier is an Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and Director of Wayne State’s genetic counseling graduate program. She received her bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (1988) and her master’s degree in genetic counseling from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis (1994). She is certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling.
Ms. Trepanier teaches genetic counseling and medical genetics to graduate students, medical students, and practicing professionals. Her research interests include integrating cancer genomics into primary care and investigating genetic counseling service delivery models. She currently works with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on a project aimed at promoting best practices in cancer genomics statewide.
Ms. Trepanier is a member of the executive committee of the Association of Genetic Counseling Program Directors (secretary), a past board member of the National Coalition of Health Professional Education in Genetics, the Genetic Counseling Foundation, and the Michigan Association of Genetic Counselors, and a past president of the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC). She is involved in a number of professional volunteer activities including serving on the NSGC Genetic Counseling Outcomes workgroup, the NSGC Licensure subcommittee, and the Association of Genetic Counseling Program Directors Committee on Advanced Training for Certified Genetic Counselors.
James M. Hoffman, PharmD, MS, BCPS
Pharmacogenetics
Dr. James M. Hoffman is Medication Outcomes and Safety Officer and Associate Member in Pharmaceutical Sciences at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the University Of Tennessee Health Science Center College Of Pharmacy. Dr. Hoffman received both his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. In addition, he received a Master’s of Science degree in pharmacy administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also completed a residency and a research fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics.
Dr. Hoffman is an investigator on St. Jude’s effort to implement preemptive pharmacogenetics using an array based genotyping platform that interrogates 225 genes for over 1900 polymorphisms (http://www.stjude.org/pg4kds). Since its inception in 2009, he has been a member of the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC; http://www.pharmgkb.org/page/cpic), which was formed in 2009 as a shared project between PharmGKB and the NIH’s Pharmacogenomics Research Network.
Grace M. Kuo, PharmD, MPH, PhD, FCCP
Pharmacogenetics
Dr. Grace Kuo is a Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Adjunct Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. She is also the Associate Dean for Academic Clinical Affairs at the UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Dr. Kuo received her undergraduate degree in psychobiology from UCLA (1985), pharmacy degree from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences (1988), Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Oregon State University College of Pharmacy and OHSU School of Medicine (1998), Specialized Residency training in Primary Care at NIH Clinical Center (1998-1999), Master of Public Health (2005) and PhD in Health Economics and Health Services Research (2011) from the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston.
She is the Director for PharmGenEd™ (http://pharmacogenomics.ucsd.edu), a pharmacogenomics education program that strives to educate clinicians and students about concepts and clinical applications of pharmacogenomics. Her research focuses on medication safety at the system, provider, and patient levels in clinical settings, including the use of electronic medical records, addressing health literacy and health disparity issues, error reports, safety surveillance, and pharmacist-physician collaborative medication therapy management.
Lori A. Orlando, MD MHS
Physician
Dr. Lori A. Orlando, MD MHS is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Precision Medicine Program in the Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine at Duke University. She attended Tulane Medical Center for both medical school (1994-1998) and Internal Medicine residency (1998-2000). There she finished AOA and received a number of awards for teaching and clinical care from the medical school and the residency programs, including the Musser-Burch-Puschett award in 2000 for academic excellence.
After completing her residency, she served as Chief Medical Resident in Internal Medicine (2001) and then completed a Health Services Research Fellowship at Duke University Medical Center (2002-2004). In 2004 she also received her MHS from the Clinical Research Training Program at Duke University and joined the academic faculty. In 2005 she received the Milton W. Hamolsky Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty by the Society of General Internal Medicine. Her major research interests are decision making and patient preferences, implementation research, risk assessment for prevention, and decision modeling. From 2004-2009 she worked with Dr. David Matchar in the Center for Clinical Heath Policy Research (CCHPR), where she specialized in decision modeling, decision making, and technology assessments. In 2009 she began working with Dr. Geoffrey Ginsburg in what is now the Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine (CAGPM) and in 2014 she became the director of the Center’s Precision Medicine Program.
Since joining the CAGPM she has been leading the development and implementation of MeTree, a patient-facing family health history based risk assessment and clinical decision support program designed to facilitate the uptake of risk stratified evidence-based guidelines. MeTree was designed to overcome the major barriers to collecting and using high quality family health histories to guide clinical care and has been shown to be highly effective when integrated into primary care practices. This effort started with the Genomic Medicine Model, a multi-institutional project, whose goal was to implement personalized medicine in primary care practices. The success of that project has led to funding as part of NHGRI’s IGNITE (Implementing Genomics in Clinical Practice) network. She is currently testing methods for integrating patient preferences and decision making processes into clinical decision support recommendations for patients and providers to facilitate management of patients’ risk for chronic disease using mHealth and other behavioral interventions.
Richard Haspel, MD, PhD
Physician
Dr. Richard Haspel is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School. He obtained an MD from Cornell University, a PhD in Molecular Cell Biology from Rockefeller University and completed a residency in Clinical Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is currently the Pathology Residency Program Director at BIDMC.
Editorial Board Alumni and Advisors
Sandra Daack-Hirsch PhD, RN
Nursing
Dr. Sandra Daack-Hirsch is an Associate Professor in the University of Iowa College of Nursing. Her BSN, MSN and PhD are from the University of Iowa College of Nursing. Dr. Daack-Hirsch focused her master’s study on genetic counseling and care of children and families. She completed her PhD in the Parent Child & Family Area of study with an emphasis in public health and genetics.
Dr. Daack-Hirsch teaches genetics for nurses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and is a consultant on numerous national projects to promote the education of nurses in genetics. Her program of research involves developing innovative strategies to communicate complex genetic information with individuals, families, and clinicians.
She is a member of Center for Congenital and Inherited Disorders Advisory Committee for the Iowa Department of Public Health; consultant for the Heartland Genetic and Newborn Screening Collaborative Genomic Nursing in the Heartland Initiative, and participant in the Collaborative Genomics Services Project and Summit: Interdisciplinary work group.
Anne Greb MS, CGC
Genetic Counseling
Anne Greb MS, CGC is Director of the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. She received her Masters of Science in Medical Genetics from the University of Wisconsin and is certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics and the American Board of Genetic Counseling.
Ms. Greb previously founded and directed the Genetic Counseling Program at Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSU SOM) in Detroit MI. At WSU SOM she was also course director for the medical genetics course taken by first year medical students She has experience creating faculty development programs in teaching and improving the interdisciplinary components in a medical curriculum. She served a five-year term on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Genetic Counseling where she also served as president.
Jean Jenkins PhD, RN, FAAN
Genomic Healthcare
Dr. Jean F. Jenkins is a Clinical Advisor, Genomic Healthcare Branch, Division Communication, Policy, and Education, NHGRI, NIH. She received her B.S.N. from the University of Maryland, M.S.N. at the Catholic University of America, and Ph.D. from George Mason University, Va.
Recognizing the importance of advances in genetics research for all health care, Dr. Jenkins strives to educate health professionals and the public about implications of genomic information for education, practice, and research. Dr. Jenkins provided leadership in the development and revision of National Coalition for Health Care Professional Education in Genetics (NCHPEG) core competencies in genetics.
Building on these efforts she along with Dr. K. Calzone coordinated the development and consensus of the Essential Nursing Competencies and Curricula Guidelines for Genetics and Genomics (2005; 2009) leading to the development of this education resource repository (http://www.g-2-c-2.org/) and a web-based case-scenarios resource (http://www.g-3-c.com/).
She currently serves as the Chair of the G2C2 Ediorial Board. Dr. Jenkins has > 125 publications including three Journal of Nursing Scholarship series on genomics (2007; 2011; 2013).
Constance Goldgar, M.S., PA-C
Advisor
Constance Goldgar is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Utah Physician Assistant Program where she teaches medical genetics and evidence based medicine. She received her BA degree in Biology from Grinnell College, and her physician assistant education and MS in Child Health from the University of Colorado Medical Center. She has worked to integrate genetics and genomics into the curriculum at the University of Utah Physician Assistant Program, but also throughout PA education.
Prior to joining the PA program, she worked for nine years in the Division of Genetic Epidemiology in the University of Utah Department of Medical Informatics. She served as a liaison from the Physician Assistant Education Association to the NIH-sponsored National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics (NCHPEG) for several years. Under the auspices of NCHPEG she was lead author of an interactive website designed for physician assistants, “Genetics in the Physician Assistant’s Practice.” She serves as a member of the editorial board of the NIH Genetics/Genomics Competency Center (G2C2). Ms. Goldgar has been recognized in her role as an educator nationally by being awarded the 7th annual Michael J. Scotti, Jr, MD Award by NCHPEG for contributions to genetics education for health professionals in 2010. She served on the board of directors of the national Physician Assistant Education Association for 3 years and recently as president (2012-2014).