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Dr. Gail Jarvic, Arno G Motulsky Endowed Chair in Medicine, 

Joint Professor of Medicine and Genome Sciences, Division Head 

Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Washington Medical Center

Dr. Jarvik (she/her) is an internist and medical geneticist whose research focuses on the statistical genetic analysis of common diseases in adults including cancer, vascular disease, and dementia. She has broad research interests in the implementation of genomic medicine, including her work in the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network, Clinical Sequencing Evidence Generating Research (CSER), Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN) and All of Us consortia. 

Her active research in biomedical ethics includes returning genomic research results to participants and studying the impact of regulations on genomic research. She was the 2021 president of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) and was awarded the 2024 ASHG Mentorship Award in recognition for being a collegial collaborator who consistently advocates for others  and her mentoring of 30 pre-doctoral trainees across six departments. 

She is the founding medical director of the UW Genetic Counseling Graduate Program.