Gail Jarvik is an internist and medical geneticist who holds the Arno G. Motulsky Endowed Chair in Medicine and heads the Division of Medical Genetics at the UW. Her research focuses on the statistical genetic analysis of common diseases in adults including cancer, vascular disease and dementia. She has broad research interests in the implementation of genomic medicine, including her work in the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network, Clinical Sequencing Evidence-Generating Research (CSER), Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN), and All of Us consortia. Her active research in biomedical ethics includes returning genomic research results to participants and studying the impact of regulations on genomic research. She was the 2021 president of the American Society of Human Genetics.
