Lindsay Ames Farrer

Background

Farrer, Lindsay Ames was born on May 28, 1958 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. Son of Robert G. and Phyllis Selma Farrer.

Education

Bachelor in Population Genetics, U. North Carolina, 1981; Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Genetics, Indiana U., 1985.

Career

Postdoctoral fellow, Yale University School of Medicine, Department Human Genetics, New Haven, 1985-1987; assistant professor neurology public health, Boston University School of Medicine, 1987-1992; associate professor neurology public health, Boston University School of Medicine, 1992-1997; instructor neurology, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, since 1987; professor neurology public health, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, since 1997; professor medicine, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, since 1998; genetic epidemiologist, VA Medical Center Hospital, Bedford, Massachusetts, since 1997; chief genetics program, Boston University School Medicine, since 1998. Consultant National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., since 1990, DNA diagnostic laboratory Boston University School of Medicine, since 1991.

Achievements

• Lindsay Ames Farrer has been listed as a noteworthy Genetic epidemiologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Active member Temple Beth Am, since 1987. Member Congregation Sha'rei Shalom, since 1997, board directors, since 1997, vice president, since 1998. Fellow American College Medical Genetics (founding, member test and technical transfer committee since 1993, chair working group ApoE testingin Alzheimer disease since 1994).

Member American Society Human Genetics, International Genetic Epidemiology Society, World Federation Neurology, Human Genome Organisation.

Connections

Married Anne Marie Swigert, June 28, 1987. Children: Jordan Ross, Robert Rogin.

Father:

Robert G. Farrer

Mother:

Phyllis Selma Farrer

Spouse:

Anne Marie Swigert

child:

Jordan Ross Farrer

child:

Robert Rogin Farrer