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 Center Director
Helen H. Hobbs, M.D.
Howard Hughes Investigator
Director, McDermott Center
Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics
Research Interests:
Genetics of lipid metabolism
Contact:  helen.hobbs@utsouthwestern.edu
 
 
 Faculty
Gail Brookshire, CGC
Faculty Associate
Research Interests:
Genetic Counseling

Contact:  gail.brookshire@childrens.com

Jonathan C. Cohen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
Genetics of quantitative traits
Contact:  jonathan.cohen@utsouthwestern.edu
Bill P. Crider, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
High through put DNA sequencing
Director, W. M. Keck Sequencing Core Facility
Contact:  billy.crider@utsouthwestern.edu
Christine Garcia, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
Genetics of pulmonary disorders

Contact:  christine.garcia@utsouthwestern.edu

Harold R. (Skip) Garner, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
Biotechnology, bioengineering, computational approaches to genomics, data mining, instrumentation for high throughput sequencing, light biology, DNA chips, and microarrays
Contact:  harold.garner@utsouthwestern.edu
Website:  Garnering Innovation
Fredrick F.B. Elder, Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology
Co-Director, Cytogenetics
Research Interests:
Cytogenetics
Contact:  frederick.elder@UTSouthwestern.edu
Karen Heller, CGC
Faculty Associate
Research Interests:
Genetic Counseling
Contact:karen.heller@utsouthwestern.edu
Website:Veripath Laboratories
Joseph F. Maher, M.D.
Associate Professor, Program Director, Medical Genetics and Education
Research Interests:
Medical genetics; control of gene expression and cell-fate determination; cell signaling in human genetic disorders
Contact:joseph.maher@utsouthwestern.edu
Stacy Miller, CGC
Faculty Associate
Research Interests:
Genetic Counseling
Contact:  stacy.miller@childrens.com
Alexander Pertsemlidis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
Micro RNAs and lung cancer, genetic determinants of cardiovascular disease
Contact: alexander.pertsemlidis@utsouthwestern.edu
Website:   http://compbio.swmed.edu
Roger Schultz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Veripath Laboratories – Cytogenetics
Research Interests:
DNA Repair and Human Disease, DNA Repair and Aging, Chromosome and Genome Stability
Contact: roger.schultz@utsouthwestern.edu
Gail E. Tomlinson, M.D., Ph.D.
 Clinical Associate Professor, Hematology-Oncology
Research Interests:
BRCA 1/2 Related Breast Cancer, Genetics of Childhood Cancers, Development of novel and population-specific cancer genetic counseling methods
Contact: lewis.waber@utsouthwestern.edu
Lewis J. Waber, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Acting Division Director Genetics & Metabolism
Research Interests:
Pediatric metabolism disorders
Director, Medical Genetics and Education
Contact: lewis.waber@utsouthwestern.edu
Kathleen Wilson, M.D.
Associate Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
Research Interests:
Cytogenetics
Contact:  kathleen.wilson@UTSouthwestern.edu 
Carol Wise, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
Research Interests:
Genetics of pediatric musculoskeletal disease
Contact: carol.wise@utsouthwestern.edu
Stephen Wooding, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
How have population history and natural selection have interacted to produce patterns of genetic variation? How can information about population history and natural selection be used in the dissection of genotype-phenotype correlations?
Contact: stephen.wooding@utsouthwestern.edu
Xiao-Song Xie, Ph.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
Structure and function of V-type proton translocating ATPase; biochemistry of ABC transporters -ABCG5 and ABCG8
Contact: xiao-song.xie@utsouthwestern.edu
Chao Xing, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences
Research Interests:
Methodology - Statistical genetics, genetic mapping, association, linkage, and segregation analysis, gene expression. Application - Human complex genetic disorders: hypertension, obesity, Type II diabetes, systemic lupus erythematosus, age-related macular degeneration
Contact: chao.xing@utsouthwestern.edu
Andrew R. Zinn, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Research Interests:
Molecular genetics of the human X chromosome, genetic disorders of growth and reproduction
Contact: andrew.zinn@utsouthwestern.edu