Julie M. Eggington, MS, PhD

Dr. Eggington is the co-founder and CEO of the independent non-profit Center for Genomic Interpretation (CGI) and founder of Grandview Consulting, LLC. Her mission is to help improve the accuracy, quality, and utility of clinical genetics and precision medicine. She advises national and international policy makers, and is a member of numerous national and regional committees, working groups, and forums. Dr. Eggington directed clinical genetics programs at Myriad Genetics, Courtagen Life Sciences, and 23andMe. She was a 2019 Sego Award winner for Utah women co-founders/CEOs in Innovation in Technology. In her formal training, Dr. Eggington was a postdoctoral fellow within a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Laboratory at the University of Utah, and received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her M.S. from the University of Utah, and her B.S. with Honors from Brigham Young University. Dr. Eggington grew up in the Outback of Australia.