The Value of Genetic and Genomic Technologies Workshop Summary (2010) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 61-70
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for Northern California Kaiser Permanente and has been the Co-Chief of Genetics at the Oakland KP Medical Center, since joining Kaiser Permanente in 1981. He currently maintains small clinical practices at both his Oakland and San Francisco facilities.
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SelectHealth is the insurance arm of Intermountain Health Care, a nonprofit company providing care to the intermountain West. His responsibilities include evaluating quality initiatives; adopting utilization guidelines, including genetic testing coverage; and pharmaceutical management.
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Lurvey, M.D., F.A.C.P., FACE, is a board certified internist and endocrinologist and has been a Medicare contractor medical director for 14 years, initially working for the California Part B Carriers Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company, National Heritage Insurance Company, and National Government Services and, most recently, for Palmetto GBA, the Medicare contractor in jurisdiction J-1. He was in clinical practice for 35 years.
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It houses the state's premier tobacco control program (realized a 40 percent reduction in smoking rates, a 65 percent reduction in tobacco consumption and a 26 percent decrease in tobacco-related cancer rates) ; a statewide cancer registry; control programs directed to cardiovascular diseases and diabetes; and a host of other categorical prevention programs.
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He is also an associate professor of healthcare informatics at Montana Tech University and the physician liaison for careQuest, an inpatient electronic medical record, at St. James Healthcare in Butte.
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Recognizing the early promise of preventive genomics, he joined Navigenics in 2008 as the company's chief medical officer. He created a vision for Navigenics built around a powerful idea -- that the most effective and responsible way to introduce preventive genomic testing to the public was with the support and partnership of corporate medical directors, medical centers, and physician offices, in addition to Navigenics' own team of genetic counselors.
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She is also active on a state level and is working with the Illinois Department of Public Health on genetics education and finance and reimbursement issues, and she is on the Genetic and Metabolic Diseases Advisory Committee. Janet Williams, M.A., CGC, is the coordinating genetic counselor for the Intermountain Healthcare Clinical Genetics Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Hired as a general pediatrician, he eventually pursued fellowship training in clinical genetics and was board certified in this specialty in 1996 and recertified in 2006. In 1999 he gave up general pediatric practice and became the associate medical director of the Gundersen Lutheran Health Plan while maintaining his genetic practice.
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His clinical practice includes a broad spectrum of general medical genetics, including dysmorphology, teratology, prenatal diagnosis, and inherited diseases of children and adults. He is the director of the Kaiser Permanente Regional Huntington Disease Predictive Testing Program.
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