Recent Publications
- Evans BJ, Burke W, Jarvik GP. FDA and genomic tests: getting regulation right. New Eng J Med 2015; 372:2258-64. PMCID: PMC4464691
- Barata L.P, Starks H, Kelley M, Kuszler P, Burke W. What DNA can and cannot say: perspectives of immigrant families about the use of genetic testing in immigration. Stanford Law Pol Rev 2015;26:597-638. PMCID: PMC4743036..
- Korngiebel D, Fullerton SM, Burke W. Patient safety in genomic medicine: an exploratory study. Genet Med 2016; 18:1136-42.
- Dorfman E, Thummel K, Cheng E, Hebert M, Burke W. Prenatal pharmacogenomics: a promising area for research. The Pharmacogenomics J, 2016;16(4):303-4. PMCID: PMC4956529
- O'Doherty KC, Christofides E, Yen J, Bentzen HB, Burke W, Hallowell N, Koenig BA, Willison DJ. If you build it, they will come: unintended future uses of organised health data collections. BMC Med Ethics. 2016 Sep 6;17(1):54. doi:10.1186/s12910-016-0137-x. PMCID: PMC5011895.
- Fohner AE, Garrison NA, Austin MA, Burke W. Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase 1A P479L and Infant Death: Policy implications of emerging data. Genet Med 2017 Jan 26. doi: 10.1038/gim.2016.202. [Epub ahead of print]
- Bowen DJ, Albrecht T, Hay J, Eggly S, Harris-Wei J, Meischke H, Burke W. Communication among melanoma family members. J Health Communication 2017;22:198-204. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2016.1259374.
- Woodahl EL, Lesko LJ, Hopkins S, Robinson RF, Thummel KE, Burke W. Pharmacogenetic Research in Partnership with American Indian and Alaska Native Communities. Pharmacogenomics 2014; 15:1235-41. PMCID: PMC4201360
- Burke W, Thummel K. A call for accurate pharmacogenetic labeling: telling it like it is. JAMA Intern Med. 2014 Dec;174(12):1945-6. PMCID: PMC4250298
- Burke W, Korngiebel DM. Closing the gap between knowledge and clinical application: challenges for genomic translation. PLoS Genet. 2015 Feb 26;11(2):e1004978. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004978. eCollection 2015 Feb. PMCID: PMC4342348
- Trinidad SB, Fullerton SM, Burke W. Looking for trouble and finding it. Am J Bioeth 2015; 15(7):15-7. PMCID: PMC4526022
- Burke W, Trinidad S. The deceptive appeal of direct to consumer genetics. Ann Int Med 2016 Apr 19;164(8):564-5.
- Korngiebel D, Thummel K, Burke W. Implementing precision medicine: ethical challenges. Trends Pharmacol Sci 2017; 38:8-14. NIHMSID: 835073
- Burke W. Commentary to “My Identical Twin Sequenced Our Genome”: Cautionary Genomics. J Genet Couns 2016 Dec 20. doi: 10.1007/s10897-016-0054-7. [Epub ahead of print]. NIHMSID: 838035
Awards, Honors and Grants Received
- NHS International Fellow, Public Health Genetics Unit, Cambridge UK (2006)
- Named a "Local Legend", (Celebrating America's Local Women Physicians), Washington State
- Elected to the Institute of Medicine, now National Academy of Medicine (2007)
- President, American Society of Human Genetics (2007)
- President’s Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Center for Alaska native Health Research, 2007-present
- Presidential Chair, University of California, San Francisco (2013-2014)