Dr. Deborah VanDommelen is the Medical Director at Guardian Life. She has been in the industry for over 15 years, with a diverse breadth of experience including underwriting, claims, innovation, training, and regulatory efforts. Dr. VanDommelen completed an honors degree in genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During that time, she participated in prostate cancer research at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital. She attended medical school in Madison prior to earning her master’s degree in public health from Harvard University. Dr. VanDommelen moved to Milwaukee to complete her residency training in Family Medicine and stayed on as an assistant professor for an additional three years. Before pursuing insurance medicine, she practiced clinical medicine for six years and served on the human subjects committee that supervised research protocols at St. Luke’s Hospital.