University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Medical Genetics and Genomics/Pediatrics people

Associate Program Director, Pediatrics & Medical Genetics and Genomics Residency

Clinical genetics and genomics physician, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Natural history of lysosomal disorders (e.g. Fabry disease, Gaucher disease, Pompe disease), Newborn screening for lysosomal disorders

Michael Colburn, MD

Associate Program Director, Pediatric & Medical Genetics and Genomics Residency

Pediatric medicine physician, Clinical Associate Professor at Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Alpa Sidhu, MBBS, PhD

Clinical Director, Division of Medical Genetics and Genomics

Clinical genetics and genomics physician, Clinical Associate Professor at University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center

Tumor Predisposition Syndromes, Lysosomal Storage Disorders, Birth Defects

Hatem El-Shanti, MD

Division Director

Clinical cytogenetics and genomics physician, Richard O. Jacobson Foundation Chair in Pediatrics at Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Genetics of childhood epilepsy, Mutation analysis of autoinflammatory disorder genes, in particular bone and skin inflammation, Genetics of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Developmental Disorder, Gene mapping and positional cloning of human autosomal recessive disorders

Alyssa Wetzel, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Clinical Assistant Professor at Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Calcium-dependent Naked-Dishevelled Conformational Changes Modulate Wnt Signaling Output, Using RNA-Seq to Understand MetS, A Data-Driven Framework for CNV Pathogenicity Classification, Exome Sequencing Variant Analysis

Amy Calhoun, MD

Clinical Professor

Clinical biochemical genetics physician, Clinical Professor at Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Wolf-Hirshhorn Syndrome, An Open Label of the Safety, Efficacy and Pharmacokinetics of Glycerol Phenylbutyrate in Pediatric Subjects Under Two Years of Age with Urea Cycle Disorders

Angela Rios, MD, MS

Class of 2029

Pediatrics resident, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Benjamin Darbro, MD, PhD

Professor

Pathologist, Professor at Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Dylan Todd, MD, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Medical genetics / clinical genetics (m.d.) physician, Clinical Assistant Professor at Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

John Imbrie, DO, MPH

Class of 2030

Pediatrics resident, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Mark Schultz, PhD

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor at Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Genetics and mechanisms underlying lysosomal storage diseases, Molecular mechanisms of protein folding, trafficking, and degradation, Using stem cells to understand and develop therapeutics for childhood diseases

Moon Tung, MBBS

Assistant Professor

Clinical genetics and genomics physician, Assistant Professor at University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center

Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes, Short Telomere Syndromes, Hemoglobinopathies, Cancer Genetics

Nicole Safina, MD

Clinical Associate Professor

Clinical genetics and genomics physician, Clinical Associate Professor at Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Val Sheffield, MD, PhD

Professor

Medical genetics and genomics physician, Professor of Pediatrics at Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Treatment of human genetic diseases using iPS cells and genome editing, Molecular genetics of hypertension and obesity, Molecular biology of syndromic retinitis pigmentosa, Molecular biology of hereditary macular degeneration