The Center for Health Research

Katrina Goddard, PhD, is a genetic epidemiologist whose research focuses on public health genomics and the translation of genetic testing into practice. She joined the Center for Health Research in 2007. Dr. Goddard is the co-Principal Investigator on a large comparative effectiveness research project in genomic and personalized medicine for colon cancer. In addition, she is the Director of the Oregon Clinical Translational Research Institute’s Biorepository, which uses discarded clinical blood specimens for genetic research, and she is leading efforts to develop the NW Biobank.

She has worked on identifying genetic risk factors for various diseases, such as prostate cancer, esophageal cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and others, and has been involved in the evaluation of commercial genetic-testing. She worked on a multicenter study to map genes for Fuchs’ dystrophy, and served as Principal Investigator of the Tools for Analysis of Whole-Genome Association in Cystic Fibrosis project. Dr. Goddard recently completed a one year mid-career fellowship in the National Office of Public Health Genomics under the direction of Muin Khoury, which was jointly sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and the American Society of Human Genetics.

She received her PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Washington in 1999, and a BS in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to her appointment as a Senior Investigator at the Center for Health Research, Dr. Goddard was on the faculty at Case Western Reserve University in the Division of Genetic & Molecular Epidemiology, directed by Dr. Robert Elston. At Case Western, she was involved in several large-scale gene-discovery projects, and was the Associate Director of the Human Genetic Analysis Resource, which produces the S.A.G.E. software package.

E-mail: Katrina.AB.Goddard@kpchr.org