Heidi Rehm

Heidi Rehm is Director of the Genomic Medicine Unit in the Center for Genomic Medicine and Chief Genomics Officer at Massachusetts General Hospital, working to integrate genomics into medical practice.

She is a board-certified laboratory geneticist and Chief Medical Officer and Clinical Laboratory Director of Broad Clinical Labs working to guide clinical genomic testing in medical practice. She is a principal investigator of ClinGen, providing free and publicly accessible resources to support the interpretation of genes and variants.

Rehm also co-leads the Broad Center for Mendelian Genomics focused on discovering novel rare disease genes.

She is a strong advocate and pioneer of open science and data sharing, working to extend these approaches through her role as Chair of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health.

Rehm is also a principal investigator of the Broad All of Us Genome Center and gnomAD, the Genome Aggregation Database, generating genomic resources to fuel discovery.

She serves as Vice President of Laboratory Genetics and a Board Member of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics as well as an advisor to the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium, Danish National Genome Center, Monarch Initiative, CIViC database and Ensembl. 

Heidi Rehm, Ph.D.