Virtual Molecular Tumor Board Series

Dr. Howard McLeod is the Medical Director for Precision Medicine at the Geriatric Oncology Consortium. He is an internationally recognized expert in pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine, having made contributions at the discovery, translation, implementation, and policy levels. He is a Professor at the University of South Florida Taneja College of Pharmacy. He was previously the Medical Director of the DeBartolo Family Personalized Medicine Institute at the Moffitt Cancer Center. He also chaired the Department of Individualized Cancer Management, was a Senior Member in the Department of Cancer Epidemiology, and a State of Florida Endowed Chair in Cancer Research. Dr. McLeod chaired the NHGRI eMERGE network external scientific panel for the past decade and was a recent member of both the FDA committee on Clinical Pharmacology and the NIH Human Genome Advisory Council.

Since 2002, Dr. McLeod has been vice chair for Pharmacogenomics for the major NCI clinical trials group, overseeing the largest oncology pharmacogenomics portfolio in the world. Dr. McLeod is a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. Howard has published over 560 peer reviewed papers on pharmacogenomics, applied therapeutics, or clinical pharmacology and continues to work to advance individualized medicine.

Lincoln Nadauld founded the Intermountain Precision Genomics program with a vision of finding solutions to improve health and disease through genomics and precision medicine without increasing costs. With his vision in mind, he oversees the clinical implementation of precision genomics across Intermountain’s 24 hospitals and 160 physician clinics. In addition, he facilitates genomic research to better understand the human genome. Nadauld conceived of and is leading the recently announced Heredigene, Population Study — a collaborative effort with deCODE Genetics in Iceland to collect and perform whole-genome sequencing on 500,000 participants in the Intermountain system. Nadauld’s work in founding Intermountain Precision Genomics was recognized with the Utah Governor’s 32nd Annual Science Medal for Industry, which is the highest civilian award to be bestowed by the state of Utah and honors significant contributions to science and technology. Dr. Nadauld also received the 2020 C2 Catalyst for Precision Medicine award, honoring those who improve personalized treatment for cancer patients. He is married with five children and enjoys attending their many activities and events, as well as water sports, fishing and other athletic pursuits.

Christine M. Walko is a Personalized Medicine Specialist at the DeBartolo Family Personalized Medicine Institute at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and is also Associate Professor at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida. She is also the Chair of the Clinical Genomics Action Committee (CGAC) and an Attending on the Personalized Medicine Clinical Service at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr. Walko received her Doctor of Pharmacy from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. She completed a pharmacy practice residency at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System/Medical College of Virginia Hospitals in Richmond, Virginia. She also completed a Hematology/Oncology specialty residency at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Hospitals and Clinics and a Hematology/Oncology fellowship at the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She is a board-certified oncology pharmacist.

Jennifer Godden received her PharmD from the University of Iowa. She completed her post-graduate Pharmacy Practice and Oncology Specialty Residencies at Aurora Health Care. She is currently the Co-Director for the Oncology Precision Medicine program, which she helped implement.

Laura Gonzalez is lead variant scientist at Intermountain Healthcare. Prior to joining Intermountain, she held similar roles at Navican and the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System. She holds a BS and PhD from the School of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.