The American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ABMGG) has granted accreditation approval for the Department of Pediatrics’ new Laboratory Genetics and Genomics (LGG) fellowship.
The ABMGG accredits medical genetics and genomics laboratory training programs, and credentials and certifies physicians in medical genetics and genomics. The Department of Pediatrics is one of only 24 sites across the country to offer all laboratory fellowship training programs and one of only 44 programs in the country.
The LGG fellowship will combine and replace the Division of Genetics & Metabolism’s existing clinical cytogenetics and molecular genetics fellowships, both of which were also accredited by the ABMGG. The LGG fellowship provides clinical laboratory training within the UW Collaborative Genomics Core (a partnership between UW Cytogenetic Services and Molecular Genetics and UWHC Molecular Diagnostics/Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine), and PreventionGenetics, Inc. in Marshfield, Wisconsin.
The division’s biochemical genetics fellowship remains unchanged.
Jennifer Laffin, PhD, FACMG, is the program director for the LGG and biochemical genetics fellowships, and along with Vanessa Horner, PhD, FACMG, is the training director for the LGG fellowship. Patrice Held, PhD, FACMG, is the training director for the biochemical genetics fellowship.
The first LGG fellow will begin training in July 2017.