About Leadership
The Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine leadership team comprises a distinguished group of clinicians, scientists, advisors, faculty, and information technologists affiliated with Harvard Medical School (HMS), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Research specialties include genetics and genomics, pathology and epidemiology combined with a range of clinical medical specialties from pulmonology and neurology to rheumatology and psychiatry. The leadership team works together to drive innovation in all areas of personalized medicine and to ensure that the needs of our clients are met with an emphasis on continuous improvement.

Elizabeth Karlson, MD
Scientific Director, Mass General Brigham Personalized Medicine
Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Karlson is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Scientific Director, Mass General Brigham Personalized Medicine, Principal Investigator of the Mass General Brigham Biobank, All of Us Research Program, eMERGE Clinical Center at Mass General Brigham, and Post-Acute Sequela of SARS-CoV2, Data Resource Core. She serves as director of Rheumatic Disease Epidemiology in the Section of Clinical Sciences, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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Sami Amr, PhD, FACMG
Director, Translational Genomics Core at Partners Personalized Medicine
Associate Laboratory Director, Laboratory for Molecular Medicine at Partners Personalized Medicine
Instructor, Pathology, Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospitals
Sami Amr is the Director of the Translational Genomics Core of Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine, where he leads a team that works with basic and translational researchers across Partners Healthcare to identify DNA, RNA, and methylation markers and signatures of disease that can help de-convolute underlying mechanisms of pathogenesis, as well as be leveraged in diagnostic and clinical assays.
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Sandy Aronson, ALM, MA
Executive Director, Information Technology, Partners Personalized Medicine
Read More...Sandy Aronson is the Executive Director of IT of the Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine (PCPGM). His team develops IT infrastructure required to support the evolution and practice of genetic based personalized medicine in both patient-facing and laboratory settings.
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Natalie Boutin
Program Director, Partners HealthCare Biobank, Partners Personalized Medicine
Director, Information Technology, Partners Personalized Medicine
Natalie Boutin is Program Director at the Partners HealthCare Biobank and Director of Information Technology at Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine. In this dual capacity, she is responsible for the Partners Biobank’s operations and for its information technology infrastructure. She also oversees systems that drive clinical and research genomics at Partners Personalized Medicine.
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Robert C. Green, MD MPH
Associate Director for Research, Partners Personalized Medicine
Professor, Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Robert C. Green, MD, MPH is the Associate Director for Research at Partners Personalized Medicine. As a medical geneticist and physician-scientist, he also directs the G2P Research Program in translational genomics and health outcomes in the Division of Genetics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
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Matthew Lebo, PhD, FACMG
Director, Bioinformatics at Partners Personalized Medicine
Director, Laboratory for Molecular Medicine at Partners Personalized Medicine
Assistant Professor, Pathology, Brigham and Women's and Harvard Medical School
Matthew Lebo, PhD joined Partners Personalized Medicine as an Assistant Laboratory Director for the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine in 2011 after completing his ABMG molecular genetics fellowship training at the Harvard Medical School Genetics Training Program. In the fall of 2013 Dr. Lebo became the head of Bioinformatics at Partners Personalized Medicine and Associate Laboratory Director for the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine, and in 2018 become the Director of the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine.
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Lisa Mahanta
Director, Clinical Laboratory Operations, Partners Personalized Medicine
Read More...Lisa Mahanta is the Director of Clinical Laboratory Operations for Partners Personalized Medicine. She oversees laboratory operations for Partners Personalized Medicine, including the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine.
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Heather Mason-Suares, PhD, FACMG
Associate Laboratory Director, Laboratory for Molecular Medicine at Partners Personalized Medicine
Instructor, Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Heather Mason-Suares joined Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine in 2014 as an Associate Laboratory Director at the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine and Assistant Director to the Molecular Genetics ABMG Fellowship, part of the Harvard Medical School Genetics Training Program.
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Meini Sumbada Shin
Administrative and Financial Director, Partners Personalized Medicine
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Susan Slaugenhaupt, PhD
Co-Investigator, Partners HealthCare Biobank, Partners Personalized Medicine
Professor, Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Susan Slaugenhaupt is a Principal Investigator in the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR), Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Geneticist in the Department of Neurology/Molecular Neurogenetics Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Most recently, she was named the inaugural Scientific Director of the MGH Research Institute.
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Jordan W. Smoller, MD, ScD
Co-Investigator, Partners HealthCare Biobank, Partners Personalized Medicine
Professor, Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jordan W. Smoller is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, Associate Vice Chair of the MGH Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the MGH Center for Human Genetics Research. He also serves as co-director of the Genetics and Genomics Unit of the MGH Clinical Research Program.
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Hana Zouk, PhD
Assistant Laboratory Director, Laboratory for Molecular Medicine at Partners Personalized Medicine
Instructor, Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Hana Zouk, PhD joined Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine in 2016 as an Assistant Director at the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine (LMM) after completing her ABMGG fellowship in clinical molecular genetics at Harvard Medical School Genetics Training Program.
Dr. Zouk is interested in molecular genetic testing that combines high-throughput genomic technologies along with advanced clinical interpretation to provide comprehensive genetic information that can be used for effective implementation in personalized medicine. She is a co-Investigator of the eMERGE Project, a national consortium that combines biorepository samples with electronic health record (EMR) systems for large-scale genomic discovery and clinical implementation research. Her main role in the eMERGE Project is the rapid interpretation of sequence variation identified throughout the process to facilitate the integration of these genetic variants into EMRs for clinical care.
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