Elaine R. Mardis

Elaine R. Mardis is Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital. She is also Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Educated at the University of Oklahoma with a B.S. in Zoology and a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Dr. Mardis did postgraduate work in industry at BioRad Laboratories. She was a member of the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine from 1993-2016. She has authored over 330 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and serves as an associate editor for three peer-reviewed journals and is Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Case Studies, published by Cold Spring Harbor Press. Dr. Mardis was named the Morton K. Schwartz award recipient in 2016 from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry. She has been listed since 2013 as one of the most highly cited researchers in the world by Thompson Reuters. Dr. Mardis is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) since 2007, serves on its Board of Directors, and is the program committee chair for the 2018 AACR Annual Meeting.