"Integrating Genetic Risk Tests into the Clinic:  From Stroke, Heart Disease, Cancer and Beyond"
presented by Jeffrey Gulcher , M.D., PhD., Chief Scientist, deCODE Diagnostics, Chicago, Illinois.

Lunch will be served.

Place:
West Houston Medical Center
Physicians Dining Room
12121 Richmond Avenue
Houston, Texas

RSVP to 281.558.1171. or 713.464.9559

Jeff Gulcher, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer and co-Founder
deCODE Genetics

Jeff Gulcher, M.D., Ph.D. has been Chief Scientific Officer of deCODE Genetics since October 2003. Prior to that he was its Vice President, Research and Development. Dr. Gulcher co-founded deCODE with Kari Stefansson in August 1996. Dr. Gulcher was on staff in the Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School from June 1993 to October 1998. He received his Ph.D. and M.D. from the University of Chicago in 1986 and 1990, respectively, and completed his neurology residency at the Longwood Program of the Neurology Department of the Harvard Medical School in 1996. He received a Bachelor Degree in Chemistry/Physics from Michigan State University in 1981.  He is board-certified in Neurology and has published numerous articles on the genetics of common/complex diseases.