Author Archives: Elizabeth Hutchins

Rachel Phillips, PPMH project coordinator, presented a poster titled “Precision Health Genetic Screening: Where Is The Pipeline Leaky?” at the 2023 UNC Genetics Department Retreat in September. This poster explored the topic of participant retention in the Precision Health Genetic Screening (PHGS) program. Rachel worked with Erica Baynard and Kim...

In an effort to build a precision medicine community at UNC, PPMH has created a membership system. This system has now rolled out and is now available to the UNC and UNC Health Community!  Three types of PPMH membership are offered: UNC Faculty and Staff UNC Health UNC Trainee (graduate...

The UNC Clinical Genomic Analysis (GENYSIS) Core is a PPMH-affiliated research service that collaborates with the BioSpecimen Processing (BSP) facility, the High-Throughput Sequencing Facility (HTSF), and the McLendon Molecular Genetics Laboratory (MGL) to provide clinical researchers with four main services:  Bioinformatics: human genome alignment of sequence data and variant calling...

The PPMH Precision Analytics Initiative has wrapped up its first round of consultation services, and has granted Dr. Kimberly Shoenbill and her research group a $2500 pilot award to use toward their project, “Using NLP Algorithms to Improve Identification and Use of EHR Tobacco Information”. To see project submission details,...