Myth:

If I know my family's health history, I don't need a genetic test.

Truth:

Family history is only one part of your health future. For example, most cases of breast cancer are found in women who have no family history.

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Executive team

Amy DuRoss

Amy DuRoss, Vice President of Policy and Business Affairs

Amy DuRoss served as chief of staff for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, established in 2004 by the passage of Proposition 71, which provides $3 billion in funding for stem cell research in California. More

Sean George

Sean George, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer

Before joining Navigenics, Dr. George held numerous posts at Affymetrix, Inc., most recently senior vice president of marketing, responsible for the company's marketing, corporate communications, product management and customer relationship management divisions. Dr. George also served as vice president of life science research at Affymetrix, leading the company's $200 million-dollar academic business in North America, Europe, Japan and China. More

Jonathan “Jack” T. Lord, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer

Jonathan “Jack” T. Lord, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Lord comes to Navigenics from Louisville, Kentucky-based Humana, Inc., where as Chief Innovation Officer he led the development of new products and services to fundamentally transform the healthcare system and support personal health needs. Dr. Lord also led Humana’s international efforts as Chief Executive of Humana Europe. Dr. Lord is a board-certified forensic pathologist with more than three decades of experience in medical practice and leadership. He launched his medical career with the U.S. Navy, where he spent 11 years on active duty and served in leadership positions for the Navy’s Surgeon General and Secretary of the Navy. More

Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore, General Counsel

Mr. Moore was most recently associate general counsel with Affymetrix, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company developing advanced technologies for genetic screening. During his more than eight years at Affymetrix, he was responsible for a wide variety of strategic alliances, collaboration agreements and other transactional matters, including the spin-out of Perlegen Sciences, research collaborations with leading academic institutions such as the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, diagnostic product supply agreements and Affymetrix's Translational Medicine program in the United States and Canada. More

Michael Nierenberg, M.D.

Michael Nierenberg, M.D., Medical Director

Dr. Nierenberg has been the personal physician to many of Silicon Valley's CEOs, venture capitalists and lawyers, as well as prominent national and international figures. He has been mentioned frequently in local and national publications as a top internist. Dr. Nierenberg practiced internal medicine in Palo Alto and Menlo Park, California, for 30 years, serves as an emeritus clinical professor of medicine at Stanford University and consults in the legal and venture capital arena. Dr. Nierenberg is also medical advisor to Shalon Ventures, a company developing medical devices. More

Becky Scott

Becky Scott, Chief Financial Officer

Before joining Navigenics, Ms. Scott was vice president of finance and administration for BabyCenter, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. She was responsible for managing finance and all core administrative functions, including human resources, legal and facilities, as the company expanded from start-up stage to becoming the pre-eminent online parenting resource it is today. During her time at BabyCenter, she also acted as the company's chief privacy officer and was instrumental in the international rollout of nine new country-specific sites. More

Dietrich Stephan

Dietrich Stephan, Ph.D., Co-founder and Chief Science Officer

Dietrich Stephan is a human geneticist on the faculty of the Translational Genomics Research Institute and chairman of the National Institutes of Health Neuroscience Microarray Consortium. He has identified genes that predispose to disorders such as autism, exercise-induced heart attacks and sudden infant death syndrome, and contributed to understanding a multitude of common disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. More

Denise Thomas

Denise Thomas, Chief Marketing Officer

Ms. Thomas has more than 20 years of experience in marketing and business management. She was formerly executive vice president and chief marketing officer for LesConcierges, a global loyalty and lifestyle services firm, and founder of OffRoad Capital, transforming a pioneering idea into a Web-driven marketplace that attracted more than 7,000 member investors with a net worth of $40 billion. More

Vance Vanier

Vance Vanier, M.D., Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Vanier was formerly a partner at MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures, where he invested in molecular diagnostics, medical devices and online health. In addition, he helped formulate the clinical and commercialization strategies of numerous portfolio companies operating in medical markets. More