Medical Advisory Board
As a native Detroiter, Amber Abram earned her B.S in Biology with a genetics concentration and leadership minor from the University of Detroit Mercy in 2021. Amber is currently in her final year of graduate training to attain a M.S in Genetic Counseling and M.P.H in Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan. She is an active community advocate and hopes to use her public health and genetics expertise to influence positive change in minoritized communities.
Dr. Beth Devine is Professor Emeritus at The Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy, and Economics (CHOICE) Institute, School of Pharmacy, UW; Adjunct Professor Emeritus in Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education; and member of the Institute for Public Health Genetics.
As a health economist and health services research scientist with over 160 publications her research focuses on the field of precision medicine – pharmacogenomics to optimize medication use and preferred implementation strategies screening for hereditary cancer risk. Her work has been funded by AHRQ and NHGRI.
Dr. Evelyn Fang is a board certified Family and Internal Medicine Physician. Her research interests are in use of clinical informatics to improve family history collection.
Michelle Springer, MS, CGC, is an instructor and clinical genetic counselor with the University of Colorado Hereditary Cancer Program. Over the course of her 24 year career as a certified genetic counselor she has held a wide variety of genetic counseling and academic positions, including prenatal, cancer, pediatric and laboratory-based roles. For the past 12 years, Ms. Springer’s interests and passion have been in the field of cancer genetics. She is board certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling and is an active member of the National Society of Genetic Counselors and The Collaborative Group of the Americas Inherited Gastrointestinal Cancer.
Susan Weiss Liebman, PhD, was among MIT's early female undergraduate students. With an MS from Harvard and a PhD in genetics from the University of Rochester, she served as a biology professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she taught genetics and led a research group for more than three decades. Later she transitioned her lab to the University of Nevada, Reno where she is currently a Research Professor. Following the sudden death of her niece, Liebman became a medical detective and committed to promoting awareness of genetic testing. She is the author of The Dressmakers Mirror: Sudden Death, Genetics, and a Jewish Family’s Secret.