Why Choose Us?

The Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine takes pride in providing prompt, comprehensive, and compassionate state-of-the art clinical care to patients and their families.

Our team of experts includes

• Clinical geneticists
• A hematologist-oncologist
• Genetic counselors
• A dietician
• Nurse practitioners
• A molecular geneticist and molecular laboratory
• A cytogeneticist and cytogenetics laboratory
• A biochemical geneticist, a chemist, and a metabolism laboratory
• Several support staff 

We provide care for children and adults with a variety of medical problems, including, 

• Birth defects
• Abnormalities of newborn screening
• Inborn metabolic diseases
• Genetic syndromes
• Familial cancer syndromes
• Chromosomal abnormalities
• And many other genetic disorders

Highlights of our clinical service

• We have the only interdisciplinary Down Syndrome Center in Missouri.
• Our PKU and Metabolism Clinics are staffed by a geneticist with more than a decade of experience and a metabolic dietician.
• The Cancer Genetics Clinic offers counseling for a wide array of familial and genetic cancer syndromes.
• The Lysosomal Storage Disease Center provides clinical and research treatment for a variety of storage disorders.

We provide treatment to patients at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Barnes-Jewish Hospital on the Washington University School of Medicine medical campus.  St. Louis Children’s Hospital is recognized as one of the best Children’s Hospitals in the United States, and Washington University School of Medicine is consistently ranked as one of the top medical schools in the country.

We are actively involved in teaching genetics and genomic medicine to college and medical students at Washington University, residents and postgraduate fellows on our medical campus, and physicians and other healthcare providers at Washington University and in the greater St. Louis community.

Our clinical and research faculty are committed to staying at the forefront of medicine as we contribute to the rapidly expanding discoveries in genetics and genomic medicine.  Divisional research initiatives focus on basic mechanisms of gene expression, novel treatment options for phenylketonuria, and treatment for lysosomal storage disorders.

Mission Statement

The Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine aims to achieve excellence in all endeavors of academic medical genetics, including:

• Providing superior care for all who need professional services in clinical genetics
• Preparing all those educated by the Division to excel in medical genetics
• Advancing basic and applied knowledge of genetics