Gilbert Stanley Omenn came to the University of Washington in 1969 as a fellow in medical genetics and joined the faculty in medicine in 1971. During his years at the University, his teaching and research focused on the areas of environmental health and medicine, and medical genetics. He held appointments to the faculty of interdisciplinary graduate degree programs and the school of medicine. His primary appointment was to the school of public health and community medicine where he served as Dean, 1982-1997. Omenn resigned his deanship in 1997 to accept the position of Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at the University of Michigan and Chief Executive Officer of the University of Michigan Health System from 1997-2002. He has been director of the UM-wide Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics since 2005. He serves on the boards of the Hastings Center for Bioethics, the Center for Public Integrity, and the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Omenn received his undergraduate degree in biology from Princeton University in 1961. He then completed his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1965 and his Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Washington in 1972. From 1967-1969, Omenn served as a surgeon for the U.S. Public Health Service. He worked as a White House Fellow and Staff Assistant to Dr. Dixy Lee Ray, the Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1973-1974.
He was a Research Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1960, the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1961, the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1962, Intern and Resident in Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital 1965-1967, Research Associate at the National Institutes of Health 1967-1969, and Fellow, Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington. His specialty is medical genetics—prenatal diagnosis, genetic counseling, individual differences in the effects of drugs, and genetics and behavior in man. He has long-standing interests in mechanisms of genetic predispositions to risks from environmental and occupational exposures (eco-genetics) and science-based risk analyses. Omenn's most recent research focuses on proteo-genomics of cancers and proteomics informatics.
He is a past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and the Association of American Physicians.
Sources: Biography in folder "Meetings and Personal" in box 24; https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/dcmb/gilbert-s-omenn-md-phd
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