Gail E. Herman, MD, PhD, FACMG of Columbus, Ohio, is the new president of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), the national professional organization for clinical genetics professionals. Dr. Herman takes over from Wayne W. Grody, MD, PhD, of Los Angeles, Calif., who completed his two-year term at the 2013 Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, in March. As president elect, Dr. Herman has spent much of her time helping the ACMG develop guidelines and best practice policies and procedures to keep up with the pace of the evolving technologies engulfing the field of medical genetics. Dr. Herman graduated summa cum laude from Smith College, Northampton, MA with high honors in chemistry. She then entered the NIH-funded Medical Scientist Training Program at Duke University where she received a PhD in Biochemistry and an MD. More recently, her research has extended to the genetics of autism spectrum disorders. She is the Principal Investigator of a large, multisite project funded by the Department of Defense to develop a local registry of autism families and to identify autism susceptibility genes.