- Derek Wong, MD
Program Director, Medical Genetics & Genomics Residency
Clinical biochemical genetics physician at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
- Bianca Russell, MD
Assistant Program Director, Medical Genetics & Genomics Residency
Clinical genetics and genomics physician, Assistant Clinical Professor - Children's Health Center at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
- Wayne Grody, MD, PhD
Director, UCLA Intercampus Medical Genetics Training Program
Pathologist, Professor at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
Molecular genetics of metabolic and heritable neoplastic diseases, Familial Mediterranean Fever, molecular diagnostic testing
- Nicola Longo, MD, PhD
Division Chief, Clinical Genetics
Clinical biochemical genetics physician, Professor and Chief at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
Metabolic disorders, Fatty acid oxidation, Carnitine transport, Creatine transport and brain creatine deficiency
- Aldons Lusis, PhD
Professor of Human Genetics, Medicine, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, UCLA
Professor at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
Genetics of atherosclerosis; Genetics of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; Gut microbe - cardiovascular interactions, genetic determinants of cardiovascular disease, Genetics of complex diseases such as atheroschlerosis using inbred animal strains as models.
- Beate Ritz, MD, PhD
Professor, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences.
Neurologist, Distinguished Research Professor of Epidemiology at UCLA School of Public Health
- Celeste Eno, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai
Pathologist, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
- Christina Palmer, PhD, MS
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Human Genetics, UCLA
Professor-in-Residence at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
Centers on genetics of complex behaviors and the educational, psychological, and behavioral outcomes of genetic counseling and genetic testing.
- Daniel Cohn, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics & Human Genetics, UCLA
Professor Emeritus at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
skeletal dysplasias, Research on the molecular basis and mechanisms of disease in the skeletal dysplasias, and his group has written more than 100 articles on this topic.
- Daniel Geschwind, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
Neurologist, Senior Associate Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor for Precision Medicine at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
neurogenetics, autism, The Geschwind laboratory focuses on integrating basic neurobiology, genetics, and genomics with translational studies of human diseases.
- Deborah Krakow, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Human Genetics & Obstetrics & Gynecology, UCLA
Clinical genetics and genomics physician, Chair at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
Define prenatal ultrasound parameters in the osteochondrodysplasias, Define the molecular basis of musculoskeletal disorders, Gene expression patterns in the skeleton, Disorders of joint development
- Elaine Hsiao, PhD
Associate Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology
Goodman-Luskin Endowed Chair in Microbiome Research at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
- Elizabeth Neufeld, PhD
Emerita Professor of Biological Chemistry, UCLA
Internist, Emerita Professor of Biological Chemistry at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
mucopolysaccharidosis
- Gerald Lipshutz, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Surg-Liver & Pancreas Transplantation, UCLA
Surgeon, Vice Chair for Research at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
Oncology, Transplantation in the Elderly, Kidney Transplantation, Liver Transplantation, Pancreas Transplantation, Pediatrics, gene therapy and cell transplantaion, arginase deficiency
- Guoping Fan, PhD
Associate Professor of Human Genetics, UCLA
Professor Emeritus at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neuronal differentiation; and generation of mouse models for human diseases.
- Henry Lin, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA
Medical genetics / clinical molecular genetics physician, Professor of Pediatrics at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
intestinal cancer
- Janet Sinsheimer, PhD
Professor of Human Genetics, Biomathematics and Biostatistics, UCLA
Professor at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
genetics of evolution
- Jerome Rotter, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics & Human Genetics, Harbor-UCLA
Specialist physician, Professor-in-Residence at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
genetics of common disease, inflammatory bowel disease, atherosclerosis, diabetes.
- John Graham, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Cedars-Sinai
Pediatric medicine physician, Professor of Pediatrics at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
dysmorphology
- Jose Abdenur, MD
Associate Clinical Professor, UC Irvine
Pediatric medicine physician, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at University of California (Irvine)
inborn errors of metabolism, small molecules
- Josh Deignan, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA
Medical genetics / clinical molecular genetics physician, Clinical Professor at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
- Julian Martinez, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Human Genetics, UCLA
Clinical genetics physician, Associate Professor at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
Genetics of growth signaling pathways in stem cells, cancer and overgrowth syndromes.
- Karen Reue, PhD
Professor of Human Genetics, UCLA
Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
lipid and glucose metabolism, Genes underlying disorders in lipid and glucose metabolism.
- Kenneth Lange, PhD
Professor of Biomathematics & Genetics, UCLA
Professor at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
mathematical modeling, Formulation of statistical methods for analyzing the genetic basis of common diseases.
