SACGHS membership
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Recently chartered Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health & Society will be chaired by Edward McCabe, MD/PhD, University of California-Los Angeles/Mattel Children's Hospital, HHS announces Dec. 23. A pediatrician, McCabe previously chaired the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing, whose original mission statement was expanded to create SACGHS (1"The Gray Sheet" Oct. 28, 2002, p. 9). The 13-member committee comprises biomedical researchers, ethicists and patient advocates, among others. Along with McCabe, two members from SACGT have been retained: Attorney Cynthia Berry and Reed Tuckson, MD. New SACGHS panelists include Eric Lander, PhD, director of the Whitehead Institute for Genome Research; Emily Winn-Deen, PhD, genomics business director for Roche Molecular Systems and a former Celera Genomics executive; and Huntington Willard, PhD, incoming director of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy at Duke University...