 Okay, thank you everyone for joining us today for the future directions for undiagnosed diseases research the UDN and beyond workshop We're really hoping to have a lot of great discussion today from everyone And you'll notice that our meeting is really set up with very brief presentations for the most part so that most of the time can Be really dedicated to hearing your thoughts and advice And so we'd like to start off just by having everyone introduce ourselves So if we could start off down at the end of Hugo if you could start us off with just your name your Affiliation and if you're one of the UDN investigators, which site you're from My name is Hugo Bell and I'm from Baylor College of Medicine, and I'm the head of the Model Organism Screening Center Paul Fisher Stanford University clinical site Wendy Chung Columbia University panelists Steve Brouscott Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a panelist I guess Dave Kohler from Oregon Health Science University co-PI of the Metabolomics Corps David Adams, I'm a geneticist and pediatrician in the intramural program, and I'm interested in informatics and bioinformatics as well Judith Hall. I'm a long-standing clinical pediatrician. I'm both worked in the US and in Canada Donna appell Hermansky put locks in Joan network panelist Vandana Shashi and the Duke clinical site PI I Paul Melma I'm the associate director of public policy at the national organization for rare disorders, and I'm on the panel this afternoon John mink. I'm a child neurologist from the University of Rochester, and I am an external advisor Cindy Powell clinical geneticist at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and I'm on a panelist Jim Anderson I work in the office of the NIH director Eric Green director of National Human Genome Research Institute Bill Gaul. I'm at the NIH UDP and a station wise and I co-coordinate the common fund working group for the UDN with dr. Gaul I'm Walter Korshatz. I'm a national student neurologic disorders and stroke Irina Marmini, I'm at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and I'm a panelist I'm Christine Ng from Baylor College of Medicine, and I'm PI of the Baylor sequencing Corps I'm Sue Berry from the University of Minnesota. I'm a clinical geneticist, and I'm a panelist I'm Darcy Krueger. I'm from Cincinnati Children's Hospital. I'm a child neurologist, and I'm a panelist today I'm Rachel Ramoni. I'm from the UDN coordinating center Ronnie Cohn from the hospital for sick children in Toronto, and I guess I'm a panelist, too I'm Laura Munez, and I'm a member of the UDN working team I'm Mary Perry from the Office of Strategic Coordination within the Office of the Director of NIH on the program leader for the UDN Rizwan Hamid, I'm from Vanderbilt Clinical Site Maaren Schuner, I'm a clinical geneticist. I work at the VA in Los Angeles and UCLA, and I'm an external scientific advisor I'm Brendan Lehm, the PI of the Clinical Site Baylor College of Medicine Eric Villain, PI of the UCLA Clinical Site Great, and could we have Callum? I think we missed you going around Apologize for arriving so late. Callum McCray, I'm a cardiologist and geneticist in Boston and clinical lead on the Harvard site Great, and if we could have the program staff just stand up briefly and introduce yourselves so that folks in the room know who you are as well I'm John Malvahill, a medical genetics consultant to the extra mural program of the genome institute Thanks everyone. So I have just a couple of brief housekeeping announcements One, it seems like we can only have a couple of these mics on at once So if you can make sure that you turn it off when you're not speaking that way We can make sure that they'll work when people need to be able to comment Two, if you haven't already set up transportation to be able to make it back to the airport Please see Sandra or Josh at the table and they can help with arranging that for you And if you do need any information about vouchers and reimbursement They do have those forms available for you as well And with that, I would like to start this off with some information and welcome from the co-chairs of our common fund working group For the udn and I will start with eric green the director of nhdri