Date: September 19, 2025
Time: 9:30 AM - 3PM
Location: U-M School of Public Health | Room SPH 1 - 1755
You are cordially invited to join AI&DHI for the 2025 Annual Michigan Genomics Initative (MGI) Symposium! This year's symposium will feature keynote speaker Eimear Kenny, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Genetics and Director of the Institute for Genomic Health at Icahn School of Medicine.
Light refreshments and a lunch will be provided!
Symposium Agenda
10:00 AM: Welcome and State of MGI
10:30 AM: MGI Sequencing Experiments
Matt Zawistowski - “Identifying patients with rare, undiagnosed disease for diagnostic genome sequencing using LLM interrogation of clinician notes in electronic health records”
Tony Scott - “Clinical Validation and Discovery of MGI Potentially Pathogenic Germline Variants”
Jonathon LeFaive - “Genome Sequencing of MGI Participants to Study Somatic Variant Effects on Health”
Sofia Merajver - “Judith Tam ALK Lung Cancer Research Initiative, ATLAS, and MGI: the path to precision oncology”
Ford Hannum - “Rare and common variant studies in hereditary eye disease”
Amy Pasternack - “Optimizing Medication Effectiveness and Reducing Adverse Drug Reactions at Michigan Medicine: Implementing Pharmacogenetics with CLIA-Approved Sequencing”
11:30 AM: Research Presentation
Graham Brady - “Insights into nuclear envelope biology through big data”
12:00 PM - Lunch
1:00 PM - Keynote Presentation: “Population Genetics in an Era of Genomic Health”
Eimear Kenny
2:00 PM - Wendy Uhlman and Tony Scott: "Assessing interest in clinically actionable genetic testing results among MGI participants
2:30 PM - Research presentation
Vincent Chen - “Genetics for precision medicine in liver disease”
2:50 PM - Wrap Up
Meet our Keynote Speaker
Eimear Kenny, PhD
Professor, Medicine and Genetics
Director, Institute for Genomic Health,
Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
Dr. Eimear Kenny leads research at the interface of genomics, medicine, and computer science. She uses data science and massive-scale databases of genomic information to improve human health. Her research spans several different areas, including population and statistical genetics; machine-learning approaches for genomic discovery for rare and common diseases; genomic risk prediction for preventive health; clinical trials in genomic medicine; and digital app development for precision medicine. Her goal is to lead a new paradigm for genomic research embedded in health systems and to enable genomic medicine on a global scale. She is a scientific advisor to many initiatives in government, non-profit and industry arenas.
Meet our Featured Guest Speakers
Matt Zawistowski, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor, Biostatistics,
School of Public Health
GreaterGood Breast Cancer Research Professor; Professor, Internal Medicine,
U-M Medical School; Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, U-M Medical School
Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine,
U-M Medical School
Ford Hannum,
PhD
Bioinformatician, Department of Opthalmology
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, U-M Medical School
Jonathon LeFaive
Senior App Programmer / Analyst, Biostatistics,
School of Public Health
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pharmacy
Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine and Human Genetics, U-M Medical School