Gail Jarvik receives Distinguished Alumnus Achievement Award

Dr. Gail Jarvik, professor and head (Medical Genetics) is the 2022 recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Achievement Award from the Michigan Medicine Alumni Society.

This award honors alumni who have typified the Michigan tradition of excellence and have brought credit to the university by their personal and professional accomplishments.

Recipients are recognized for their distinguished achievements, dedication to their field, and significant contributions in the science and art of medicine.

Gail Jarvik M.D., Ph.D., is an internist and medical geneticist who is the Arno G. Motulsky Endowed Chair in Medicine and head of the Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Washington in Seattle. She cares for adult medical genetics patients. Her research focuses on the statistical genetic analysis of common diseases, including cancer, vascular disease, and dementia.

Dr. Jarvik has broad research interests in the implementation of genomic medicine, including her work in the electronic MEdical Records and Genomics network (eMERGE), Clinical Sequencing Evidence-generating Research (CSER), Undiagnosed Disease Network, and All of Us Consortia. Her research in biomedical ethics includes returning genomic research results to participants and the impact of regulations on genomic research. She is past president of the American Society of Human Genetics and earned her Ph.D. in human genetics at U-M in 1986.