Gillian Hooker, Phd, ScM, is the Chief Scientific Officer of the Nashville-based Health IT firm, Concert. She is also a past-president of the National Society of Genetic Counselors and an adjunct faculty member with Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she leads the research arm of the genetic counseling training program. Gillian got her PhD in Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology at Yale University before training as a genetic counselor with the NHGRI/Johns Hopkins training program. She did her post-doctoral work in Cancer Prevention & Control at Georgetown University in the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and then returned to NHGRI where she served as the Associate Director of the Genetic Counseling Training Program and as a researcher within the Social and Behavioral Research Branch of NHGRI. She is a proud Michigander who grew up in Kalamazoo with a strong love of the Great Lakes.