About Speakers

Gunter Scharer, MD, PhD

Dr. Scharer is a board-certified medical geneticist with 15+ years of clinical and laboratory experience. He is a renowned geneticist with deep experience in rare disorders and mitochondrial disease. Dr. Scharer is a member of the CPIC and Pharmacogenomics Research Network (PGRN).

Shannon Manzi, PharmD

Dr. Manzi is a clinical pharmacist and has practiced pediatric pharmacy for more than 20 years. She serves as the Director of the Clinical pharmacogenomics Service at Boston Children’s Hospital and is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Manzi is the member of the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC).