Marta Gwinn, MD, MPH, is a medical epidemiologist for the National Office of Public Health Genomics (NOPHG), CDC. She graduated from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, the University of North Carolina School of Public Health (Biostatistics), and CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service and Preventive Medicine Residency. She directed laboratory-based surveillance systems and research studies in CDC’s HIV/AIDS program for 10 years before joining NOPHG in 1999. She currently leads NOPHG’s Knowledge Integration, which promotes using the tools of human genome epidemiology to translate genomic research results into information for clinical and public health applications.