Meet the Team
Leadership and Administration

Raul A. Urrutia, MD
Professor, Department of Surgery; Director, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center

Kimberly Garman, MS
Associate Director of Administration, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center

Kevin Havens, MBA
Executive Director of Operations and Commercialization, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center
Associate Directors

Donald G. Basel, MD
Section Chief and Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Genetics); Associate Director, Undiagnosed & Rare Diseases, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center; Medical Director, Genetics Center, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin; Co-program Director, Neurofibromatosis and RASopathy, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

Ulrich Broeckel, MD
Professor, Pediatrics; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Physiology and School of Pharmacy; Chief, Section of Genomic Pediatrics; Associate Director, Pharmacogenomics, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center

Melinda R. Dwinell, PhD
Associate Professor; Associate Director, Education, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center

Leonard E. Egede, MD, MS
Director, Center for Advancing Population Science; Professor of Medicine & Eminent Scholar; Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine; Associate Director for Cancer Disparities, MCW Cancer Center; Associate Director, Diversity, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center; Co-Director, MCW CTSI KL2 Program; Director, MCW CTSI Master's in Clinical/Translational Research

Kimberly Garman, MS
Associate Director of Administration, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center

Jennifer Geurts, MS, CGC
Certified Genetic Counselor; Associate Director, Genetic Counseling, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center

Mary M. Horowitz, MD, MS
Robert A. Uihlein, Jr. Professor of Hematologic Research; Director, Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research; Associate Director, Cancer, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center

John R. Kirby, PhD
Chair, Microbiology & Immunology; Walter Schroeder Professor in Microbiology and Immunology; Associate Director, Microbiome, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center; Associate Director, Center for Microbiome Research

Robert H. Lane, MD
Associate Dean for Research, MCW and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; Associate Director, Epigenomics, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center; Professor and Chair, Pediatrics; Pediatrician in Chief, The Barri L. and David J. Drury Chair in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

John Meurer, MD, MBA
Professor & Director, Institute for Health & Equity; Associate Director, Precision Public Health, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center

Roy Silverstein, MD
Chair and Linda and John Mellowes Professor of Medicine; Associate Director, Clinomics, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center

Michael T. Zimmermann, PhD
Director, Bioinformatics Research and Development Lab, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center
Practice Integration Directors

Bradley H. Crotty, FACP, MPH, MD
Assistant Professor, Medicine (General Internal Medicine); Practice Integration Director, Medical Informatics Liaison, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center

Gabrielle C. Geddes, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Genetics); Practice Integration Director, Undiagnosed & Rare Diseases, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center

Ben George, MD
Assistant Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology); Practice Integration Director, Cancer, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center

Jason A. Jarzembowski, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pathology; Vice Chair for Pediatric Pathology; Director, Pediatric Pathology Fellowship; Practice Integration Director, Pediatric Clinical Diagnostics, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center; Laboratory Medical Director, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin; Director, Core Laboratories, Children’s Research Institute
Members

Syed M. Ahmed, MD, DrPH
Sr Associate Dean, Director, Professor

Christopher Stephen Davis, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor

William R. Drobyski, MD
Mariette C. and Philip W. Orth/Tom Anderson Chair of Oncology; Co-Leader, Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Program, Cancer Center; Professor, Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology

Michael B. Dwinell, PhD
Professor; Founding Director, Center for Immunology; Director, Bobbie Nick Voss Laboratory for Colon Cancer Research; Leader, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

Michael J. Flister, PhD
Assistant Professor

Aron Geurts, PhD
Associate Professor

Quinn Hogan, MD
Vice Chair: Research, Professor

Nikki Johnston, PhD
Associate Professor, Otolaryngology & Communication Sciences and Microbiology & Immunology

Joseph E. Kerschner, MD
Provost, Executive Vice President, Medical School of Wisconsin; Dean, School of Medicine; Professor

Ulrike P. Kappes, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine; Laboratory Director, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center; Laboratory Director, Advanced Genomics Laboratory, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin

Joohyun Kim, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor

Chien-Wei (Masaki) Lin, PhD
Assistant Professor

Gwen Lomberk, PhD
Chief, Division of Research; Director, Basic Science Research; Department of Surgery; Associate Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology & Toxicology

Subramaniam Malarkannan, PhD
Professor and Gardetto Chair for Immunology and Immunotherapy; Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology) and Microbiology & Immunology; Senior Investigator, Blood Research Institute

Jonathan S. Marchant, MA, PhD
Marcus Professor & Chair

Angela J. Mathison, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery; Technology Development Director, Genomic Science and Precision Medicine Center (GSPMC)

Ravi P. Misra, PhD
Professor; Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Jong-In Park, PhD
Professor

Janet Sue Rader, MD, FACOG
Chair, Professor

Sridhar Rao, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor

Kevin R. Regner, MD, MS, FASN
Chief, Associate Professor

John Routes, MD
Professor, Pediatrics (Allergy, Asthma & Immunology) and Microbiology & Immunology; Chief, Section of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Christina Runge, PhD, CCC-A
Professor

Christopher J. Schultz, MD, FACR, FASTRO
Chair and Bernard & Miriam Peck Family Professor of Radiation Oncology

Mary E. Shimoyama, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Dawn Siegel, MD
Associate Professor

Manu Sood, MBBS
Chief, Professor

Jonathan Thompson, MD
Assistant Professor

Ling Wang, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology

Michael A. Zimmerman, MD, FACS
Professor; Surgical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant; Medical Director, Incompatible Organ Transplant
Genetic Counselors

Morgan Depas, MS, CGC
Certified Genetic Counselor

Amy Donahue, MGCS, CGC
Certified Genetic Counselor

Kendra Eaves, MS, CGC
Certified Genetic Counselor

Jennifer Geurts, MS, CGC
Certified Genetic Counselor; Associate Director, Genetic Counseling, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center

Amanda Jacquart, MS, CGC
Certified Genetic Counselor

Alison Kirschner, MS, CGC
Certified Genetic Counselor

Samantha M. Stachowiak, MS, CGC
Genetic Counselor

Allison Thomsen, MS, CGC
Certified Genetics Counselor
Contact Us
Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center (GSPMC)
Medical College of Wisconsin
8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Medical College of Wisconsin
8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53226
(414) 955-4887
(414) 955-6516 (fax)
gspmc@mcw.edu
