Speaker Profile
M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Chief Quality Officer, Baylor Genetics
Biography
Dr. Christine Eng serves as the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer at Baylor Genetics. In addition to her role at Baylor Genetics, Dr. Eng is a Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, as well as a pediatrician, and medical geneticist. As a winner of the 2024 Modern Healthcare Women Leaders in Healthcare award, Dr. Eng is recognized for several contributions to the implementation of genomics in clinical practice. She serves as principal investigator of the genome sequencing core for the National Institutes of Healths Undiagnosed Diseases Network and was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society of Human Genetics effective January 1, 2024. Dr. Eng received her bachelors degree from Yale University. Following her bachelors, she received her medical degree from Tulane University.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Wendy Chung, Boston Children's / Harvard
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Wendy Chung, Boston Children's / Harvard (Pioneer)
• Eric Lander, Broad Institute (Pioneer)
Featured Speakers
• Wendy Chung, Boston Children's / Harvard
• Eric Lander, Broad Institute
• Zhanzhi (Mike) Hu, Project GUARDIAN / Columbia
• Tippi MacKenzie, UCSF
• Ryan Taft, Genetic Alliance
• Heidi Cope, RTI International
• Michele Caggana, NY State DOH Wadsworth Center
• Elad Ziv, UCSF
• Scott Grosse, University of Minnesota
• Mike Talkowski, Mass General / Harvard
• F. Sessions Cole, WashU
• Lee Hood, Phenome Health / ISB
• Trey Ideker, UC San Diego
• Ralph Snyderman, Duke
• Craig Mundie, Mundie & Associates
• George Church, Harvard
Beyond the Exome: Solving Undiagnosed Disease
The next layer of rare-disease diagnosis beyond standard sequencing.
Population Genomic Screening
From newborn sequencing to implementation, evidence, economics, and equity.
Structural Variants & Long Reads
Solving cases missed by conventional sequencing.
Launching the Human Phenome Initiative
From genome to phenome as a global health infrastructure challenge.
Data-Driven Health
AI, longitudinal data, and personalized clinical medicine.
Engineering the Future of Health
Genomes, cells, and engineering biology as precision medicine moves upstream.
PMWC Hall of Impact
Previous Speakers Include
Nobel laureates, technology founders, regulators, CEOs and scientific pioneers who have taken the PMWC stage.
