Dr. Bookman is an epidemiologist in the Office of Population Genomics, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Prior to joining NHGRI, she served as a research geneticist at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) from 2002-2006 and chief of staff of the Office of the Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) from 2006-2009. Her research portfolio includes the Genomics and Randomized Trials Network (GARNET) and the Clarification of Optimal Anticoagulation through Genetics (COAG) study. She is also a member of the Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN) Data Access Committee.

Dr. Bookman received her B.S. in biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her M.S. in Genetic Counseling from Howard University, and her Ph.D. in Genetics and Human Genetics from Howard University. Her research interests include population genomics, pharmacogenomics, complex disease and health disparities.

Dr. Hindorff is an epidemiologist in the Office of Population Genomics at NHGRI. She received her M.P.H. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington, where her research focused on cardiovascular genetic epidemiology and motivating factors for using genetic tests in clinical care. At NHGRI, Dr. Hindorff is the project scientist for the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) program, a cooperative agreement to better characterize promising genetic variants from genome-wide association studies in large and well-phenotyped population-based cohorts. She also curates the online NHGRI Genome-wide Association Study catalog. Her research interests include pharmacogenetics, the integration of genetic tests into clinical care and practical issues related to large epidemiological studies.

Ms. Junkins is a health science analyst in the Office of Population Genomics, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), joining NHGRI in 2007. She received her M.S. in biomedical anthropology from the State University of New York at Binghamton, where her research focused on examining the biological, cultural and social issues surrounding infectious disease. She also managed a comprehensive biobank of diverse biological specimens and samples. Prior to joining NHGRI, Ms. Junkins managed human clinical trials and coordinated traditional and experimental protocols in a veterinary oncology unit.

Within the Office of Population Genomics, she is currently working on several collaborative projects: consensus measures of Phenotypes and Exposures (PhenX), the application of PhenX measures in population-based studies (PhenX RISING), and is also a co-lead on the Genomic Medicine Pilot Demonstration Projects. She is also curates the NHGRI Genome-wide Association Studies Catalog.

Dr. Li is a genetic epidemiologist and serves as the program director for the electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network. She has a longstanding interest in genetic/genomic research on complex diseases and phenotypes, and gene-gene, gene-environment and gene-drug interactions.

Before Dr. Li came to the United States in 1991, she was working at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (Beijing) and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine (Beijing). She completed her post-doctoral training at Glaxo and her residency at Glaxo-Wellcome. She worked at Rho, a biostatistics consulting firm/contract research organization (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

Dr. Li was on the faculty of Morehouse School of Medicine (Atlanta) and was a tenured professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center within the Department of Preventive Medicine, and Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics (Memphis, Tenn.) before joining the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in 2009.

Dr. Li taught genetic epidemiology and was a mentor to graduate students, junior faculty members and clinicians. Dr. Li has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and abstracts. She is also an associate editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Dr. Manolio is Director of the Office of Population Genomics, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and Senior Advisor to the Director, NHGRI, for Population Genomics. She received her M.D. from the University of Maryland and her Ph.D. in human genetics and genetic epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University.

In 1987, Dr. Manolio joined the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute where she was heavily involved in large-scale cohort studies such as the Cardiovascular Health Study and the Framingham Heart Study. She joined NHGRI in 2005 to lead efforts in applying genomic technologies to population research, including the Genes and Environment Initiative (GEI), the Electronic Medical Records and Genetics (eMERGE) Network, and the NHGRI Genome-Wide Association Catalog.

Dr. Manolio also maintains an active appointment on the in-patient medical service of the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. and is on the faculty of the University Services University of the Health Sciences as Professor of Medicine. She is the author of over 200 original research papers and has research interests in genome-wide association studies of complex diseases and ethnic differences in disease risk.

Ian Marpuri is a scientific program analyst for the Office of Population Genomics at NHGRI. Ian joined NHGRI in 2011 and is the primary program analyst for the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network and Gene Environment Association Studies (GENEVA) consortium, a part of the Genes, Environment & Health Initiative (GEI).

Before joining NHGRI, Ian graduated from Yale University in 2011 with a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and a B.A. in Classics (Latin). While attending Yale, Ian worked as a research assistant for the Yale Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology where he studied levels of insecticide resistance genes in mosquito populations in response to spraying campaigns, as well as the role of the bacterial endosymbiont Wigglesworthia in Human African Trypanosomiasis transmission.

Dr. Erin Ramos is an epidemiologist in the Office of Population Genomics, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). She received her M.P.H. and Ph.D. in the multidisciplinary field of public health genetics from the University of Washington where her research focused on the genetic epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease and the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) that surround genomics research.

Dr. Ramos manages a portfolio of research in population genomics including a collaborative project to develop a set of standardized phenotypic and exposure measures for use in genome-wide association studies and related research. She serves as the chair of the Data Access Committee (DAC) for the Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN) and as a member of NHGRI's DAC. Her research interests include the genetic epidemiology of dementia, genome-wide association studies and gene-environment interactions in complex disease, and ELSI research including informed consent for large-scale genomic studies.

Kathie Sun joined the National Human Genome Research Institute as a scientific program analyst in the summer of 2012. She works mainly on projects in the Office of Population Genomics and the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) research program. Kathie graduated from Duke University in 2012 with a double major in environmental science and biology. At Duke, Kathie worked in a variety of labs that spanned subjects from forest ecology and aquatic toxicology to nitrogen fixation in legumes. Prior to working at the NHGRI, she completed research at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina, examining defects in mitochondrial DNA replication and visualizing the phenotypes of human disease variants in vivo.

Dr. Wise is an epidemiologist in the Office of Population Genomics, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). She received her B.S. in environmental science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her Ph.D. in genetics and genomics from Duke University, along with a certificate in integrated toxicology and environmental health. At NHGRI, Dr. Wise serves as the project scientist for the Gene Environment Association Studies (GENEVA) consortium, a part of the Genes, Environment & Health Initiative (GEI) designed to enhance the understanding of genetic contributions and gene-environment interactions to common disease. Her research interests include gene-environment interactions in complex disease, pharmaco/toxicogenomics, and ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) related to the use of genetic information.