Specialties | Division
of Genetics and genomic medicine
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
·
Pediatricians
·
An internist
·
A child
neurologist
·
A family
practitioner
·
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 Clinic in Missouri.
·
Our PKU
and Metabolism Clinics are staffed by a geneticist with
more than a decade of experience, a metabolic dietician,
and a child neurologist and the only board-certified biochemical
geneticist in the St. Louis region.
·
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,
heavy metal metabolism, novel treatment options for phenylketonuria,
the genetics of autism and mental retardation, 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
To schedule an appointment in one of the Genetics Clinics,
please call:
(314) 454-6093 (Voice)
(314) 454-2075 (Fax)
(800) 678-4357 (Toll-free)
For urgent medical assistance, please call the St. Louis
Children’s Hospital Operator at (314) 454-6000 and ask to
have the on-call Geneticist paged.
U.S. Mail
Washington University School of Medicine
Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine
660 S. Euclid Ave.
Campus Box 8116
St. Louis, MO 63110-1093
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