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People in the News: Paul Rothman, Kevin Watson, David Flannery

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Cancer Genetics has appointed Paul Rothman, dean of the medical faculty and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, to serve on its board of directors.

Rothman oversees the Johns Hopkins Health System and the School of Medicine, and before that he was dean of the University of Iowa's Carver College of Medicine. He also formerly was head of internal medicine at UI and vice chairman for research and founding director of the pulmonary, allergy, and critical care division at Columbia University College of Physicians.


Rosetta Genomics has appointed Kevin Watson to be director of reimbursement and managed care.

Watson joins Rosetta Genomics from BioTheranostics, where he was director of reimbursement. He formerly was president of GlobalPayer, a payer relations and reimbursement firm, and he spent six years in regional marketing and payer relations at Becton Dickinson Diagnostics – TriPath Imaging.


David Flannery, a pediatric geneticist, is the new medical director of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics.

Flannery is a founding fellow at ACMG, co-chair of its Economics of Genetic Services committee, as well as a member of its Professional Practice and Guidelines committee and CPT and Reimbursement subcommittee. He also represents ACMG on the American Medical Association's CPT advisory committee.

The Scan

Positive Framing of Genetic Studies Can Spark Mistrust Among Underrepresented Groups

Researchers in Human Genetics and Genomics Advances report that how researchers describe genomic studies may alienate potential participants.

Small Study of Gene Editing to Treat Sickle Cell Disease

In a Novartis-sponsored study in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that a CRISPR-Cas9-based treatment targeting promoters of genes encoding fetal hemoglobin could reduce disease symptoms.

Gut Microbiome Changes Appear in Infants Before They Develop Eczema, Study Finds

Researchers report in mSystems that infants experienced an enrichment in Clostridium sensu stricto 1 and Finegoldia and a depletion of Bacteroides before developing eczema.

Acute Myeloid Leukemia Treatment Specificity Enhanced With Stem Cell Editing

A study in Nature suggests epitope editing in donor stem cells prior to bone marrow transplants can stave off toxicity when targeting acute myeloid leukemia with immunotherapy.