Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Director of the Office of Advanced Molecular Detection (OAMD), CDC
Biography
Duncan MacCannell is the Director of the Office of Advanced Molecular Detection (OAMD) at the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) at the CDC. He has been instrumental in using emerging next generation sequencing technologies to transform infectious disease public health, leading to the establishment of the Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) Program in 2014. He has guided the program's development and application of sequencing and high performance computing to public health priorities such as detecting and responding to outbreaks and identifying emerging infectious threats. During the pandemic response, Dr. MacCannell established the CDC SPHERES Consortium, which tracks the spread and evolution of SARSCoV2, the virus that causes COVID19. He leads the consortium's efforts to monitor the emergence and spread of new SARSCoV2 variants, which is critical for informing public health decision making, tracking the evolution of infectious diseases and to inform public health policy.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2025 Silicon Valley
Track Chairs:
Charles Chiu, UCSF
- PMWC 2025 Award Ceremony
Pioneer Honoree: Julie Louise Gerberding, FNIH
- Keynote: From Crisis to Cure: Navigating Public Health Challenges in the Era of Precision Diagnostics
- Julie Louise Gerberding, FNIH
- Harnessing Emerging Diagnostic Technologies in Primary and Critical Care (PANEL)
Chair: Mylynda Massart, UPMC
- Christopher Woods, Duke
- Helen Chu, U of Washington
- Yvonne Maldonado, Stanford
- Rose Lee, NIH - New Viral and Microbiome Associations with Cancer
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Nancy Joseph, UCSF
- Melody Smith, Stanford
- Metagenomics and Partnerships: Monitoring Infectious Disease Threats
- Duncan MacCannell
- Adi V. Gundlapalli, CDC
- Mindy Nye, LabCorp - Innovative Therapeutics and Host-Pathogen Interactions in Infectious Disease Management (PANEL)
- Victor Nizet, UCSD
- Brad Spellberg, LA General Medical Center
- Nevan Krogan, UCSF
- Margaret Riley, University of Massachusetts
