Clinical Genetics

Trainees

Medical Genetics Residency Program

Douglas Ball, MD, MA

Contact Information:

Tel: 212-305-6731
Fax: 212-305-9058

Education

  • University of Utah, BA, 1989
  • Washington University in St. Louis, MD, 1995
  • Washington University in St. Louis, MA, 1995
  • UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, DrPH candidate

Postgraduate Training

  • Intern and Resident in Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 1997
  • General Preventive Medicine and Public Health Resident, Department of Community & Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, NY, 2006

Interests/Specialties

  • Public Health Genetics and Genomics
  • Genetic and Genomic Health Policy
  • Translational Medicine

Cpt. Luis Rohena, MD

Contact Information:

Tel: 212-305-6731
Fax: 212-305-9058

 

Lea Tuzovic, MD

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-6731
Fax: 212-305-9058
Email: let9019@nyp.org

Education

  • Graduate Program in Biomedicine and Health Science, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, 2001-2003
  • University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine, 2000

Postgraduate Training

  • Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Temple University School of Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006-2010
  • Postdoctoral research fellowship, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, 2001-2004
  • Medical Internship, Children’s Hospital Zagreb, Croatia, 2000-2001

Interests/Specialties

  • Prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapeutic procedures
  • Genetic disorders of mother and fetus
  • Reproductive genetics

Postdoctoral Fellows

Vimla Aggarwal

Contact Information:

Tel: 212-305-6460
Fax: 212-305-7436
Email: vsa2105@columbia.edu

Education:

  • Doctorate in Medicine - Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S), Lokmanya Tilak Muniicipal Medical College, Mumbai, India, 1996-2002

Postgraduate Training:

  • Doctorate in Medicine - Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S), Lokmanya Tilak Muniicipal Medical College, Mumbai, India, 2008- present
  • Research Associate, Department of Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine(Laboratory of Dr. Bernice Morrow), 2003-2008
  • Medical Internship, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Mumbai, India, 2001-2002

Interests/Specialties:

  • Cytogenetics
  • Chromosome microarray

M. Laura Cremona, PhD

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 851-5318
Fax: (212) 851-5306
Email: lc2215@columbia.edu

Postgraduate Training:

  • Intern and resident in Pediatrics, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1998-2000
  • Post doctoral fellow, U of San Martin, Buenos Aires 2000-2002
  • Post doctoral fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 2002-2004
  • Post doctoral research scientist, Columbia University 2004-2006

Interests/Specialties:

  • Type 2 diabetes
  • Gene cloning

Lesley Northrop, PhD

Contact Information:

Tel: (212) 305-6460
Fax: (212) 605-7436
Email: len2115@columbia.edu

Education:

  • State University of New York, Potsdam, NY, B.S., 1992-1996
  • Boston University, Boston, MA, M.S., 2002-2004
  • Boston University, Boston, MA, Ph.D., 2004-2007

Postgraduate Training:

  • Post-doctoral Fellow – Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey, Molecular Biology and Genetics, 2007-2010
  • Research Fellow – Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey, Molecular Biology and Genetics, 2010-2011

Interests/Specialties:

  • Reproductive Genetics
  • Embryology
  • Human aneuploidy