Genetic testing panel
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
HHS Secretary's advisory committee on genetic testing (SACGT) will hold its first meeting June 30 on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda. Edward McCabe, MD, an NIH-funded pediatrician at the University of California at Los Angeles, chairs the 13-member panel. Other members include Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee member Patricia Charache, MD, and Joann Boughman, PhD, a member of FDA's Medical Devices Advisory Committee. Panelists will report to HHS Assistant Secretary David Satcher, who will give the group its charge June 30. SACGT will meet twice yearly and have an estimated annual budget of $130,000. HHS Secretary Donna Shalala convened the group to advise on "development, validation and regulation of genetic tests," following recommendations by two NIH panels