Alan E. Guttmacher, M.D. is the Deputy Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health.  In that role, he helps oversee the institute’s efforts in advancing genome research, integrating the benefits of genome research into health care, and exploring the ethical, legal, and social implications of human genomics.   Dr. Guttmacher also serves as the Director of the Office of Policy, Communications, and Education at the NHGRI.  In that role, he directs the institute’s health affairs, public policy, communications, community outreach, and public education functions. 
 
Dr. Guttmacher came to the NIH in 1999 from the University of Vermont, where he directed the Vermont Regional Genetics Center and Pregnancy Risk Information Service, the Vermont Cancer Center’s Familial Cancer Program, the Vermont Newborn Screening Program, Vermont’s only pediatric intensive care unit, and an NIH-supported initiative that was the nation’s first statewide effort to involve the general public in discussion of the Human Genome Project’s ethical, legal and social implications.  He also had a busy practice in clinical genetics, conducted research, and taught. 

A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Guttmacher completed a residency in Pediatrics and a fellowship in Medical Genetics at Children’s Hospital of Boston and Harvard.  He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics.