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Tadd Lazarus

Jan 19, 2018

Clinical Genomics has appointed Tadd Lazarus as chief medical officer. Lazarus most recently served as senior vice president and chief medical officer for Luminex. He also served as chief medical officer and head of medical and scientific affairs, reimbursement, and public policy at Qiagen from 2013 to 2016. Lazarus also was previously employed by Gen-Probe (now Hologic) as chief medical officer and VP of clinical affairs. He began his career at Roche Diagnostics, where he held simultaneous roles in private practice and as director of medical and scientific affairs, and then as the North American medical director for the molecular diagnostics, POC, diabetes, clinical chemistry, and immunology businesses.

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