Person Type: Genetic Analysis

Sara Cromer

Sara Cromer is a clinical and research fellow in Endocrinology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and completed internship and residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center.  As a second-year Endocrine fellow, she focuses on research while maintaining a clinical connection through outpatient clinics in …

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Soo-Heon Kwak

Dr. Kwak is a visiting scholar from Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul Korea. He was trained as an endocrinologist and focuses his research on genetics and epidemiology of diabetes in East Asians. He has experience in analyzing genome-wide associations on gestational diabetes, whole exome sequencing in type 2 diabetes, and clinical sequencing for diagnosis of …

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Joanne Cole

I received my PhD in Human Genetics in 2016 from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and have since been working with both Jose Florez and Joel Hirschhorn on the genetics of diabetic kidney disease and other complex traits. In my spare time I love to travel, cook, and play volleyball. …

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Josep Mercader

I am a biologist and my main interest is in using human genetics in order to better understand the etiology of type 2 diabetes and related traits. Since 2008, I shifted from experimental biology to computational biology. Currently, I work in the analysis of newly generated datasets, such as whole-exome sequencing, as well as genome-wide …

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Miriam Udler

Miriam’s research focuses on using genetics to characterize subtypes of type 2 diabetes. She is interested in the impact of both common and rare genetic variation, and in the integration of clinical data from electronic health records. Trained as a genetic epidemiologist during her MD-PhD, she completed her residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in …

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