Dr. Brilliant is a Senior Research Scientist with over 30 years of experience in genetic research with a specialty in Albinism and Vision Disorder genetics and holds the James Weber Endowed Chair at the Marshfield Clinic, where he directs the Center for Human Genetics and the Personalized Medicine Research Project (PMRP). He is the Associate Director of the Translational Technologies and Research Core of the CTSA-Funded UW-Madison/Marshfield Clinic Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.  He is also the lead geneticist and Executive Director of the Wisconsin Genome Initiative, a collaboration in translational research between the Marshfield Clinic, UW-Madison and the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Brilliant is the Marshfield Clinic PI for an eMERGE2 grant that aims to combine genetic information into the electronic health record to support personalized medicine and improved patient care, with an emphasis on vision disorders.