Clinical Genetics

Wendy Chung, MD, PhD Academic Title(s): Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 851-5313 Fax: (212) 851-5306 Patient Appointments: (212) 305-6731 Email: wkc15@columbia.edu

Education:

• Cornell University, B.A., 1990
  
• Rockefeller University, Ph.D., 1996
  
• Cornell University, M.D., 1998

• Intern and resident in Pediatrics, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1998-2000
• Fellow, Clinical Genetics, Division of Clinical Genetics in Pediatrics, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 2000-2002
• Fellow, Molecular Genetics, Division of Clinical Genetics in Pediatrics, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 2002-2003

Awards and Honors:

• American Academy of Pediatrics Young Investigator Award
• Charles W. Bohmfalk Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching in the Clinical Years.
• Medical Achievement Award, Bonei Olam
• Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University

Interests/Specialties:

• Genetic basis of obesity and diabetes
• Metabolic and endocrine genetic disease
• Congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathies, and inherited arrhythmias
• Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
• Breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility
• Cancer syndromes including von Hippel Lindau Disease
• Spinal muscular atrophy

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Kwame Anyane-Yeboa, MD Academic Title(s): Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-6731 Fax: (212) 305-9058 Email: Ka8@columbia.edu

Education:

• Prempeh College, Advance level certification, 1967
  
• University of Ghana Medical School, MB, ChB.,1972

• Rotating Intern, Korlebu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana,1972-1974.
• Pediatric Resident, Harlem Harlem Hospital Center, 1974-1977
• Fellow, Clinical Genetics, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1977-1980

Awards and Honors:

• Awarded an Honorary Doctors degree, University of Ghana, 2004

Interests/Specialties:

• Infants and children with congenital malformations
• Autism
• Mental retardation in children and adults
• Congenital malformation in pregnancy

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Maryam Banikazemi, MD Academic Title(s): Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-6261 Fax: (212) 305-9058 Patient Appointments: (212) 305-6731 Email: mb3186@columbia.edu

Education:

• Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, MD, 1991

Postgraduate Training:

• Fellowship, Biochemical Genetics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, 1999-2000
• Fellowship, Medical Genetics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, 1997-1999
• Residency, Pediatrics, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL, 1995-1997
• Internship, Pediatrics, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL, 1994-1995
• Research Fellowship, Molecular Genetics, Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 1992-1994
• Credits , Molecular Genetics, Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey, 1992

Interests/Specialties:

• Biochemical Genetics,
• Inborn errors of metabolism
• Lysosomal storage disorders

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Alfred Slonim, MD Academic Title(s): Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Contact Information: Tel: (212) 305-6731 Fax: (212) 305-9058 Email: as2718@columbia.edu

Education:

• MBBS (M.D.) University of Melbourne, Australia, 1958

• Junior resident (intern), Box Hill Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, 1959
• Pediatric resident, Asaf Harofeh Hospital, Israel, 1960
• Pediatric resident, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, 1961-1962
• Research fellow in Pulmonology, Pediatric Research Center, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, 1963-1965
• Senior resident, Internal Medicine Department, Tel Hashomer Hospital, Israel, 1966-1968
• Research fellow in endocrinology, Department of Cancer Research and Basic Sciences, Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel, 1969

Interests/Specialties:

• Inborn errors of metabolism
• Metabolic disease of muscle and liver

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Affiliated Faculty

Jack Maidman, MD: Prenatal Clinical Geneticist

Ronald Wapner, MD: Prenatal Clinical Geneticist

Dorothy Warburton, PhD: Cytogeneticist

Brynn Levy, PhD: Cytogeneticist

Vaidehi Jobanputra, PhD: Cytogeneticist

Vundavalli Murty, PhD: Cancer Cytogeneticist

Mahesh Mansukhani, MD: Molecular Pathologist