M.D., Regional Medical Director, Clinical Genetics & Genomics Program; Clinical Director, Population Genomics Program, Providence
Biography
Dr. Gordon is a genomics pioneer who has been recognized with honors, special awards, multiple grants, and fellowships in cancer research and translational genomics. At Providence health system, she works as the Regional Medical Director of the Clinical Genetics & Genomics program and as the Chair of the Commission on Cancer Integrated Network Cancer Program. Dr. Gordon is passionate about holistic approaches to health and disease prevention with a focus on social determinants of health and equity. She uses her understanding of what motivates providers, to deliver solutions that drive the adoption of genomics in clinical practice and equitably bring genomics to all patients across their lifetime. Having completed an integrative medicine fellowship, her drive is to have “more tools in the toolbox” to empower patients and believes genomics is the foundation for all wellness-based care.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2023 Silicon Valley
Track 3 - January 27 9.00 A.M.-4.15 P.M.
Track Chairs:
Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance & Alice Rathjen
- PMWC 2023 Award Ceremony:
Pioneer Honoree: David Bentley, Ilumina
- Learnings and Advancements of Population Studies (PANEL)
Chair: Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance
- David Bentley, Illumina
- Slavé Petrovski, AstraZeneca
- Andrea Ganna, FinnGen
- Robert Wildin, University of Vermont Health
- Alexander Charney, Mount Sinai - Precision Medicine in Understudied Populations
- Ryan Taft, Illumina
- Aimé LUMAKA, WALGEMED - Building Future Precision Care in Qatar
Chair: Khalid Fakhro, Sidra Medicine
- Ziyad M. Hijazi, Sidra Medicine
- Edison T. Liu, The Jackson Labs
- Challenges and Opportunities for National Precision Medicine Initiatives (PANEL)
Chair: Alessandro Riccombeni, Microsoft UK
- Catalina Lopez-Correa, Genome Canada
- Khalid Fakhro, Sidra Medicine
- Framework to Improve the Translation of Genomics into the Clinic (PANEL)
Chair: Kathleen Barnes, Tempus Labs
- Carlos Bustamante, Galatea Bio
- Ora Gordon, Providence
- Abasi Ene-Obong, 54gene - Identifying Relationships Between Disparate Data Sets to Monitor and Control Pathogen Outbreak (PANEL)
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Amy Kirby, CDC
- Smruthi Karthikeyan, Caltech - Increasing Diversity in Population Studies
- Manual Rivas - Global Biobank Engine, Stanford Rivas Lab
- The Missing Diversity in Human Epigenomic Studies
- Charles E. Breeze, National Cancer Institute
- The Transition from Genomics to Phenomics in Precision Population Health
- Lee Hood, Phenome Health
