Toni Pollin, M.S., Ph.D., CGC
Medical/Scientific Advisory Board
Toni Pollin, M.S., Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health and Human Genetics; Track Leader of the Graduate Program in Epidemiology & Human Genetics, University of Maryland School of Medicine. She received her M.S. in genetic counseling from the University of Minnesota in 1997 and Ph.D. in human genetics from the University of Maryland in 2004. Dr. Pollin is a board certified genetic counselor with a research focus on mapping genes involved in susceptibility to type 2 diabetes and its complications related to lipids and cardiovascular disease, including the study of cardioprotective effects of inborn apolipoprotein C-III deficiency from a founder mutation in the Old Order Amish, as well as the implementation of genomic knowledge into clinical settings. She also leads the Amish Wellness Study, combining an Amish community biobank with basic health screening within the Lancaster Amish population.
She is Principal Investigator of in the Personalized Diabetes Medicine Program, part of the IGNITE (Implementing Genomics in Practice) Network, evaluating a comprehensive approach to screening, diagnosis, and promotion of individualized therapy for highly penetrant genetic forms of diabetes. Her work characterizing gene/lifestyle/pharmaceutical interactions provides a relevant model of inquiry for the genetic auto-inflammatory and auto-immune disorders. She is the author of more than 120 publications. A bibliography of her published work can be seen here: