Vernino, Steven, MD, PhD

Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs
Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Expert Insight: Autoimmune Neurology—Recent Advances in Disease Identification and Treatment

Presentation: The Emerging Field of Autoimmune Neurology

Vincenti, Flavio, MD

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Department of Medicine and Kidney Transplant Service
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Expert Insight: Current Challenges and Unmet Needs in Solid Organ Transplantation

Waldman, Frederic, MD, PhD

Medical Director, Cancer Diagnostics
Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute
San Juan Capistrano, CA

Presentation: Personalized Medicine — Cancer Diagnostics

Publication: Mutational Analysis in Pediatric Thyroid Cancer and Correlations with Age, Ethnicity, and Clinical Presentation.

Publication: Cost Effectiveness of Sequencing 34 Cancer-Associated Genes as an Aid for Treatment Selection in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma.

Publication: Cost-Effectiveness of Sequencing 34 Cancer–Associated Genes as an Aid for Treatment Selection in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma

Publication: Cost Effectiveness of Sequencing 34 Cancer-Associated Genes as an Aid for Treatment Selection in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma.

Wang, Thomas, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Publication: Regions of homozygosity identified by oligonucleotide SNP arrays: evaluating the incidence and clinical utility.

Wang, JC

Publication: Effects of platforms, size filter cutoffs, and targeted regions of cytogenomic microarray on detection of copy number variants and uniparental disomy in prenatal diagnosis: Results from 5026 pregnancies.

Publication: Enrichment of small pathogenic deletions at chromosome 9p24.3 and 9q34.3 involving DOCK8, KANK1, EHMT1 genes identified by using high-resolution oligonucleotide-single nucleotide polymorphism array analysis

Publication: Chromosomal microarray analysis as the first-tier test for the identification of pathogenic copy number variants in chromosome 9 pericentric regions and its challenge.

Publication: Molecular combing compared to Southern blot for measuring D4Z4 contractions in FSHD

Publication: Concurrent triplication and uniparental isodisomy: evidence for microhomology-mediated break-induced replication model for genomic rearrangements.

Publication: Regions of homozygosity identified by oligonucleotide SNP arrays: evaluating the incidence and clinical utility.

Publication: Discordant noninvasive prenatal testing and cytogenetic results: a study of 109 consecutive cases.

Watson, Karol E., MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine/Cardiology
Co-director, UCLA Program in Preventive Cardiology
Director, UCLA Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Health Program

Expert Insight: Identifying CVD Risk in Women and Minorities: The Role of Advanced Lipid Testing

Expert Insight: Cardiovascular Risk — Identifying Outliers to the Guideline

Presentation: The Impact of Additional Cardiovascular Insight for at-risk Women and Minorities

Wheeler, Darren, MD

Medical Director, Gynecologic and Breast Pathology
Quest Diagnostics
Las Vegas, NV

Publication: Antibiotic Resistance Among Urinary Isolates Obtained from Female Outpatients in the United States Comparing 2003 and 2012

Wicklund, Matthew P., MD

Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Penn State College of Medicine
Department of Neurology
Hershey, PA

Presentation: Diagnosis of Genetic Muscle Disease in 2015: “A Panel More Likely Will Yield a Diagnosis”

Publication: Antibiotic Resistance Among Urinary Isolates Obtained from Female Outpatients in the United States Comparing 2003 and 2012

Wild, Robert A., MD, MPH, PhD

Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Adjunct Professor, Family and Preventive Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Chief, Gynecology Service
VA Medical Center
Oklahoma City, OK

Presentation: Protecting the Cardiovascular Health of Women: Understanding the AHA/ACOG Advisory Statement and the Role of OBGYNs in Women’s Heart Health