Dr. Flannick obtained his PhD in Computer Science at Stanford University before training as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Genetics at Massachusetts Hospital and the Broad Institute. Dr. Flannick plays a leadership role in several national and international genetics and bioinformatics consortia, including the Accelerating Medicines Partnership for Type 2 Diabetes, a public/private partnership that funds his group to develop a public knowledge portal to make human genetic data broadly accessible to the global research community. Dr. Flannick’s research has spanned pure computer science, comparative genomics, and finally human genetics, with a current focus on using computational and statistical methods to impact human health.