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>> Okay, I will -- call to order the 66th meeting of the national advisory Council for
human Genome research. And I will turn this over to Mark Guyer .
>> Good morning everybody. I want to start with some introduction of new members. And
an announcement of the retirement of some other members -- September Council is the
time it would service transition with the new slate council members having been appointed.
>> So there are several councilmember who are retiring and Derek my, Mark G., Rex Chisholm,
Rick Myers come a pro-a Mark -- I should say just retiring from Council. [ Laughter ]
>> Their terms are rotating off the and I really want to -- on behalf of the Institute,
thank them so much for their contributions during time on Council. They have been invaluable.
We will miss them. And I am sure we will be trying to take advantage of their expertise
in many other ways. >> The new slate of members has been appointed
by the secretary. The first official meeting will be in February. But we have invited them
to the September meeting as ad hoc members -- and give them a little taste of the Council
meetings and how they go but so they don't come in cold turkey in February but
>> So the new members are, Ron Hardin, Rex O. Smith Kline -- Joe [ Indiscernible ] on
the institution -- Howard from the medical College of Wisconsin. [ Indiscernible ] from
USC's acceptances go but he still oh [ Indiscernible ] from UC San Diego. And Road [ Indiscernible
] from Duke. And in advance of the February meeting we welcome them. And we look forward
to working with them for the next four years. And to their wise council
>> I also want to introduce some new staff members to the Council. And I will ask them
to stand in the back when their names are old. We have seven new program analysts in
the extramural program. Kathy Sun who is working with the ELSI program in the office of population.
[ Indiscernible ] who is working with the knockout mouse object. Deborah: Tony is working
with genetics -- genotype issue tissue program. Care -- Karen Merritt is working with the
sequencing program. Jet [ Indiscernible ] from the -- working with the thousand Genome program
-- and I hope I pronounced your name right. Jessica Barry who is working with the links
program, and Sherry Joe who is working with the ENCODE program.
>> Welcome to all those staff members and I am sure council members will be hearing
from them many times. >> We have two liaison members who are here
today -- Rhonda Schubert from the national Society of counselors and Joanne Boughman
from the American Society of human genetics. >> And there are a couple of other people
who I just want to introduce and let Council members know that they are here -- from outside
of NIH -- Adam or group of the Institute of medicine. Joanne Scott from -- the national
coalition of health professional education and genetics. And Ö Lee from Deloitte consultants.
>> So welcome to all of you. >> Is there anyone who I have failed to introduce
and should be ask --? >> [ Indiscernible audience question or comment
] >> Okay. The next order of business is the
consideration of minutes from the previous may Council meeting. Does anybody have any
comments on the minutes? If not can I hear a motion for approval? Second? All in favor?
Anybody object? Thank you >> And finally I will call your attention
to the future meeting dates what you're listed on the open session agenda of -- the Council
meetings are scheduled at least two years in advancing. And if any council members have
any problems with any of those dates, please let us know as soon as possible.
>> So thank you and I will turn back to Eric to directorís report.