Scientific Advisory Committee Roster

Members (2006-2009)
Joe T.R. Clarke, MD, PhD (C,R)
Director, Genetic Metabolic Diseases Program
Hospital for Sick Children

Robert Desnick, PhD, MD
Professor and Chair, Human Genetics
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

Christine Eng, MD
Associate Professor
Dept. of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine

Stephen I. Goodman, MD, FACMG (C,R)
Dept. of Pediatrics
Univ. Colorado Health Sciences Center

Mark Haskins, VMD, MS, PhD
Professor of Pathology and Medical Genetics
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Pennsylvania

Jodi Hoffman, MD
Director, The Victor Program
Division of Genetics, Tufts-NEMC

William Johnson, MD
Neurogenetics
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

Michael M. Kaback, MD, FACMG Emeritus
California Tay-Sachs Prevention Program
Children’s Hospital
University of California at San Diego

Michael S. Watson, PhD, FACMG (E)
Executive Director
American College of Medical Genetics

Edwin H. Kolodny, MD (CC)
Chairman, Department of Neurology
New York University Medical Center

Paola Leone, PhD (R)
Associate Professor
University of Medicine and Dentistry of
New Jersey/RWJ Medical School
Director, Cell & Gene Therapy Center

Marvin Natowicz, MD PhD (C,R,E)
Department of Neurology
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Frances Platt, MD, PhD
Glycobiology Institute, Dept. of Biochem.
University of Oxford

Thomas Seyfried, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Boston College

Barbara Shapiro, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
University Hospitals of Cleveland
Department of Neurology

Evan Y. Snyder, MD, PhD (R)
Professor & Director
Program in Stem Cell Biology
The Burnham Institute

Cynthia J. Tifft, MD, PhD, FACMG (C,R)
Chair, Department of Medical Genetics
Children’s Hospital National Medical Center

Genetics of Development &
Disease Branch NIDDK/NIH

Judith E. Tsipis, PhD (E)
Director,
Genetic Counseling Program Department of Biology