Jason Vassy
Jason Vassy, MD, MPH, MS is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a clinician-investigator at the VA Boston Healthcare System (VABHS) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and a practicing primary care physician. He earned his MD degree from Washington University School of Medicine before completing his internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania and a Harvard General Internal Medicine Research Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. He directs the Genomes2Veterans portfolio within the Genomes2People research program, and his research examines the clinical utility of genetic and genomic testing in various primary care clinical contexts. Current projects include clinical trials of pharmacogenetic testing, polygenic risk scores, and return of unanticipated genetic results.
The NIH-funded network will implement and scale population-based genomic screening for common, actionable conditions in 25,000 adults in primary care settings across the U.S. Researchers at Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and partner institutions have received a… Continue reading Ariadne Labs and Collaborators Receive NIH Funding to Launch Major National Study Advancing Population Genomic Screening in Primary Care
Ariadne Labs is pleased to announce the appointment of Jason Vassy, MD, MPH, MS, as Director of Precision Population Health, ushering in the next chapter of the program’s work to advance the responsible and equitable integration of genomic medicine into health care. Dr. Vassy is a clinician-investigator at the VA Boston Healthcare System and Brigham… Continue reading Ariadne Labs Announces Jason Vassy as Director of Precision Population Health Program