About Us: Research and Program Staff

Maren T. Scheuner, MD, MPH
Senior Research Scientist, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Adjunct Associate Professor, UCLA School of Public Health

Maren T. Scheuner is a senior research scientist at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Health Services at the UCLA School of Public Health. She is trained as an internist and medical geneticist and specializes in the field of common disease genetics. Her particular area of interest is health services and policy research related to effective and efficient clinical integration of new genetic/genomic technologies. Her current research activities focus on evaluation of the clinical validity and utility of family history tools in risk assessment and disease prevention, assessment of genetic testing technologies, and the intersection of health information technology and genetic/genomic medicine.

Scheuner is also a natural scientist at the RAND Corporation, and a research health scientist at the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System. She serves on a number of committees and boards addressing educational issues and access to quality genetic services, and has authored many articles and book chapters regarding family history of common diseases, genetic risk assessment and disease management and prevention.

Scheuner received her bachelor's degree in biology from UC Riverside, a master's degree in Public Health and a medical degree from UCLA, and specialty training in internal medicine and medical genetics at UCLA training programs. From 1995 to 2003, she was the director of the GenRISK Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a faculty member in the Division of Medical Genetics at Cedars-Sinai and the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.