Preston Reynolds, MD, PhD
 | Preston Reynolds, MD, PhD, is the recipient of NCHPEG's 2009 Michael J. Scotti, Jr. award for contributions to genetics education for health professionals. Dr. Reynolds has been involved in genetics education for well over a decade. As she recalls, "I grew up in a biochemistry and genetics lab in medical school, and then trained under Dr. Victor McKusick as one of our firm faculty at Johns Hopkins when a resident on the Osler Service."
In 1997, she and Judith Benkendorf, MS, CGC, authored a major paper arguing for a national program to train primary care faculty in the new genetics. |
Their presentation and subsequent publication, along with calls for similar initiatives by Dr. Francis Collins and the IOM/NAS, were instrumental in launching the Genetics in Primary Care Faculty Development Initiative (GPC) - a federally-funded national program targeting faculty in general internal medicine, general pediatrics and family medicine. Her leadership in the GPC led to her involvement in a subsequent national faculty development initiative this time targeting faculty of physician assistant, nurse practitioner and nurse midwifery training programs (Genetics Interdisciplinary Faculty Training (GIFT)). Both GPC and GIFT programs were collaborative, partnering generalist faculty with geneticists and genetic counselors in learning and teaching genetics to future clinicians.
Dr. Preston Reynolds has been a member of NCHPEG as a representative of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) since 1999. She has served on the Board of Directors since 2003 and as secretary-treasurer since 2007. As a member of NCHPEG, she co-authored with Dr. Jean Jenkins, all three editions of the Core Competencies in Genetics for All Health Professionals, and contributed to numerous programs and educational products. She has represented NCHPEG at international meetings and presented the work of the GPC cultural competency task force at national and international educational forums. Dr. Reynolds co-founded the Genetics in Generalist Medicine Interest Group at SGIM that has organized workshops, pre-courses and other educational activities for the membership as well as mentored general internists encouraging them to pursue genetics as an area of research and teaching. An active teacher of students, residents and practicing physicians, Dr. Reynolds continues to advocate for genetics competency of generalist clinicians.
Dr. Preston Reynolds currently serves as Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, and faculty in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Reynolds received the Scotti Award during NCHPEG's twelfth annual meeting, held 23, 24 September 2009 in Bethesda, Maryland. The award is named in honor of the late Michael J. Scotti, Jr., MD, a founding member of NCHPEG's board of directors during his tenure at the American Medical Association.
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