Author: Suzanne B. Cassidy

Suzanne Cassidy, MD, is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at University of California, San Francisco and at University of California, Irvine. She is a board-certified Medical Geneticist and Pediatrician who has focused on care of individuals with genetic syndromes throughout her 30-year academic and clinical career. She is devoted to educating medical geneticists, having served on the American Board of Medical Genetics and the founding Residency Review Committee for Medical Genetics, as well as directed genetics training programs in 4 institutions. She served on the board of directors of the American Society of Human Genetics and as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of National Center for Human Genome Research at NIH. She has been identified as one of “America”s Top Doctors”. Judith E. Allanson, MD, is Chief of the Department of Genetics, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa. She is a board-certified Medical Geneticist and Internist with longstanding interests in pattern recognition, syndrome identification and management.