Thomas Caskey, M.D., FACP serves as Director and CEO of the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He served as Senior Vice President, Human Genetics and Vaccines Discovery at Merck Research Laboratories, West Point and President of the Merck Genome Research Institute.
Dr. Caskey joined Essex Woodlands in 2003. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Medical Genetics, and Molecular Genetics with twenty-five years of patient care experience in these specialties. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine and past President of the American Society of Human Genetics and the Human Genome Organization, and Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science. Dr. Caskey currently serves on the Board of Directors for Complete Genomics, Inc.
Dr. Caskey earned his M.D. from Duke University. He has received numerous academic and industry honors. His genetic research has identified the genetic basis of ten major inheritable diseases and opened up the understanding of triplet repeat diseases (Fragile X, myotonic dystrophy and others). His personal identification patent is the basis of worldwide application for forensic science. He is also a consultant to the FBI in forensic science.
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