Eric Schadt

Professor
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Eric Schadt is Mount Sinai Professor in Predictive Health and Computational Biology at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City. He is also founder and chief executive officer of the predictive health company Sema4.

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Counseling can ease shock of unexpected genetic results

By Eric Schadt
23 October 2018 | 6 min read

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