Maren T. Scheuner

Biography

Maren T. Scheuner is a natural scientist at the RAND Corporation. She is trained as an internist and medical geneticist and specializes in the field of common disease genetics. Her particular area of interest is health services and policy research related to effective and efficient clinical integration of new genetic/genomic technologies. Her current research activities focus on evaluation of the clinical validity and utility of family history tools in risk assessment and disease prevention, assessment of genetic testing technologies, and the intersection of health information technology and genetic/genomic medicine. Scheuner serves on a number of committees and boards addressing educational issues and access to quality genetic services, and has authored many articles and book chapters regarding family history of common diseases, genetic risk assessment, and disease management and prevention. From 1995 to 2003, she was the director of the GenRISK Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a faculty member in the Division of Medical Genetics at Cedars-Sinai and the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She received her M.D. and M.P.H. from the University of California, Los Angeles.