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Penn Whitley

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Director of Bioinformatics at Millennium Health
📍 Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Penn Whitley is the Senior Director of Bioinformatics at Millennium Health, where his research focuses on public health surveillance. He leverages large-scale drug test data, machine learning, and epidemiological analysis to monitor substance use trends and inform responses to the overdose crisis in collaboration with national health organizations. He holds a BS from the University of Colorado Boulder.

His early career at the University of Texas at Austin was dedicated to academic research on the population genetics and molecular evolution of Drosophila.

Penn is a co-inventor on several patents for molecular biology methods, including nucleic acid amplification and labeling.

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Experience
35 Years
Current Role
Director of Bioinformatics
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Public Health Surveillance
Leads efforts at Millennium Health to analyze national drug testing data, providing real-time insights into substance use trends to combat the overdose epidemic.
Epidemiological Analysis
His current work involves using epidemiological methods to study the relationship between drug test results and public health outcomes like fatal and non-fatal overdoses.
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Work history

5-2018
Director of Bioinformatics
Millennium Health
12-2015 - 5-2018
Principal Scientist, Bioinformatics
Trovagene, Inc.
7-2011 - 11-2015
Group Leader-Bioinformatics
Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine
8-2000 - 7-2011
Staff Scientist
Life Technologies/Ambion
1997 - 2000
Scientist
University of Texas at Austin, Department of Integrative Biology
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Education
1989 - 1992
BS
University of Colorado Boulder
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