University of Utah School of Medicine, USA Dr. Lynn Jorde has been on the faculty of the University of Utah School of Medicine since 1979 and holds an H.A. and Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair in the Department of Human Genetics. He was appointed Chair of the Department of Human Genetics in September 2009. Dr. Jordefs laboratory is actively involved in studies of human genetic variation, the genetic basis of human limb malformations, and the genetics of common diseases such as hypertension, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and inflammatory bowel disease. He has published more than 200 scientific articles on these and related subjects. Dr. Jorde is the lead author of Medical Genetics, a textbook that has been translated into Spanish, French, Polish, and Portuguese and is now in its 4th edition. He has received 12 teaching awards at the University of Utah School of Medicine, including the Outstanding Pre-Clinical Professor Awards from the graduating medical classes of 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005; the Leonard W. Jarcho Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003; and the University of Utah Distinguished Teaching Award in 2006. He is the co-recipient (with Dr. Louisa Stark and Dr. John Carey) of the 2008 Award for Excellence in Education from the American Society of Human Genetics. He is currently President of the American Society of Human Genetics. Dr. Jorde has served on several advisory panels for the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He completed a 4-year term as a member of the Mammalian Genetics review panel at the National Institutes of Health and a 3-year term on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Human Genetics. He is currently a member of the Center for Inherited Disease Research Access Committee and the 1000 Genomes Advisory Committee for the National Human Genome Research Institute. He serves on advisory boards for the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation and the Institute for Systems Biology. He has served on the editorial boards of Human Biology, the American Journal of Human Biology, Gene, and the American Journal of Human Genetics. He has served as an expert witness in a number of court cases involving DNA evidence. In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. Jorde is an avid hiker and cross-country skier. He enjoys photography, gardening, traveling, and playing the piano.
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