Myron Genel papers

Myron Genel, M.D. joined the Yale Medical School faculty in September 1971. He was Associate Dean of Government and Community Affairs at the Yale School of Medicine from 1985-2004. Previously he was chief of the pediatric endocrinology section and program director of the Children's Clinical Research Center. Dr. Genel's areas of professional interest include biomedical research, clinical endocrinology, and public policy. He was a member of the National Children's Study Federal Advisory Committee from 2005-2008, the HHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) from 2006-2009, and a charter member of the National Institute of Medicine's Clinical Research Roundtable, which met from 2000-2004. In 2005 he helped found the Connecticut Stem Cell Coalition and began serving on Connecticut's Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Genel has also been a consultant to the International Olympic Committee's Medical Commission on issues relating to gender identity in elite athletic competition.

Dr. Genel was elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) in 1992, has been a member of its executive council since 2000, and was the Academy's president from 2008-2010. He began directing the public affairs activities of three major pediatric academic and research societies in 1984: the American Pediatric Society (APS), the Association of American Medical School Department Chairs, and the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR). Dr. Genel was a member of the AMA Council on Scientific Affairs for seven years, serving as its chair in l999-2000, and of the governing council of the AMA Section on Medical Schools for ten years, serving as the section's chair from 2003-2004. He is a Distinguished Service member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and was chair of the AAMC's Council of Academic Societies in 1990-91. Dr. Genel was awarded the Abraham Jacobi Memorial Award from the AMA and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in 1999, the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Pediatric Research in 2003, the Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Leadership Award from the Federation of Pediatric Organizations in 2004, and the President's Award for Distinguished Service from the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2010.