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Gregory J. Tsongalis, Ph.D., HCLD, FACB. Director, Molecular Pathology, Co-Director, Pharmacogenomics Program, Associate Professor of Pathology, Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH.