ASHG: Brendan Lee, Yvonne Bombard, Wendy Chung, Wendy Uhlmann
The American Society of Human Genetics has elected Brendan Lee as its 2022 president-elect. He is chairman of the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine.
In addition, ASHG has elected Yvonne Bombard, Wendy Chung, and Wendy Uhlmann to its board of directors. Their three-year term will begin on January 1, 2022. Bombard is a researcher at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital and an associate professor in the Institute of Health Policy and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Chung leads the Precision Medicine Resource in the Irving Institute at Columbia University. Uhlmann is a clinical professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Human Genetics at the Unversity of Michigan.