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SUMMARY:STAGE ISSS: Eimear Kenny
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us for the next instalment of the STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) with\n\n\n\nEimear E. Kenny, PhD\n\n\n\nDirector, Institute for Genomic Health Interim Chief, Division of Genomic Medicine Director, Center for Clinical Polygenic Risk Professor of Medicine and Genetics Icahn School of Medicine, Mount SinaiFree Online Event | Registration Required\n\n\n\nTalk Title:\n\n\n\nPopulation Genetics In An Era of Genomic Health\n\n\n\nAbstract:\n\n\n\nTBD\n\n\n\nSpeaker Profile:\n\n\n\nDr. Eimear Kenny, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine and Genetics, and the Founding Director of the Institute for Genomic Health, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is a renowned expert in population genetics and translational genomics. She leads a multidisciplinary team of geneticists, computer scientists, clinician scientists, working on problems at the interface of genetic ancestry, machine learning, and medicine. Her research is focused on uncovering the clinical impact of human genetic variation and accelerating the implementation of genomic information in routine clinical care in diverse populations. Her work seeks to build better tools, resources, and best practices to broaden diversity and representation in genomic research and ameliorate health disparities in the implementation of genomic medicine. She is Principal Investigator in 6 large national programs focused on genomic research, medicine and health. She was recently awarded the 2022 Early-career award from the American Society of Human Genetics. She is a scientific advisor to many genomic and genomic medicine initiatives in government, non-profit and industry arenas. She has published over 170 papers in leading journals like Science, Nature, Nature Genetics, NEJM, with over 20,000 citations, and her work has been featured by many media outlets including the New York Times.\n\n\n\nShe has a BA in Biochemistry from Trinity College Dublin, a PhD in computational genomics from Rockefeller University, and did her postdoctoral training in population genetics at Stanford University.\n\n\n\nSponsors:\n\n\n\nCANSSI Ontario STAGE (STAGE) is a training program in genetic epidemiology and statistical genetics housed at the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health. It operates with financial and in-kind support from CANSSI Ontario, an extra-departmental unit in the Faculty of Arts & Science at U of T.\n\n\n\nSTAGE would like to thank our generous seminar sponsors!For a complete list of sponsors, please see here ( https://stage.utoronto.ca/sponsors/ ).\n\n\n\nPhotography Disclosure:\n\n\n\nPhotographs and/or video may be taken of participants at STAGE events. These photos/videos are for the Program’s use only and may appear on its website, in printed brochures, or in other promotional or reporting materials. By attending STAGE events, you accept the possibility that you may be videotaped or photographed. If you have any concerns, please inform us by sending an e-mail to esther.berzunza@utoronto.ca\n
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