Education duties:

I serve as Director of the PhD Program in Human Genetics.  I also teach the following courses.

HGEN 391: BioVU Study Design (Spring semester).  This class covers the Vanderbilt de-identified Electronic Medical Record, known as BioVU.

HGEN 370: Tutorials in Human Genetics (Spring semester, required course, focus on critical reading of the recent genetics papers in high-impact journals)

Genome Wide Association Studies of Eye Genomics (A module in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program designed to introduce students to the development of genetics disease association techniques from the mid 90’s to current technology, through examples such as macular degeneration).