Pediatrics: Division of Clinical Genetics
The mission of the Division of Clinical Genetics is to provide excellent, comprehensive care to patients and families with known genetic or suspected genetic disorders. They provide care for newborns, children, adults, and pregnant women in the New York City metropolitan region and beyond. The division offers comprehensive clinical services, cutting-edge genetic testing programs for difficult to diagnose genetic disorders, and clinical trials for new treatments for genetic disorders.
Overview
Their services include clinical evaluation and risk assessment, genetic counseling, and genetic testing. They also provide ongoing care for patients with genetic conditions, coordinate multidisciplinary care, and help patients access resources related to their condition. When appropriate, they identify research studies for which patients may qualify to understand their condition better or access new treatments in clinical trials. For patients planning their families, they provide reproductive options for having healthy children.
Clinical Services
Their team of highly specialized, internationally recognized physicians, genetic counselors, and nurse practitioners provide clinical services to children and adults with complex disorders including autism, epilepsy, congenital heart disease, cardiac disease, birth defects, cancer, neurofibromatosis, von Hippel Lindau, skeletal dysplasias, eye diseases, hearing loss, intellectual disability, and a wide variety of rare genetic disorders.
The skilled physicians in the division provide comprehensive genomic testing that may not be available or is difficult to access at other institutions. They frequently use exome or genome sequencing to facilitate diagnoses in complex cases, and we offer a second-opinion service to reassess previously performed genomic tests to evaluate patients with undiagnosed disorders.
For more information on the Pediatrics Division of Clinical Genetics please visit their website here.