Dr Rebecca Reimers is clinically trained in maternal-fetal medicine and clinical genetics at Brigham and Women's and Boston Children's Hospitals following an obstetrics and gynecology residency in the Harvard system. She currently practices pediatric genetics, perinatology, and leads two clinical trials; one in genome sequencing for newborn screening (BeginNGS) and the other in genome sequencing for prenatally diagnosed congenital heart disease. Her research is through Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine and she is an assistant professor at both Scripps Research Translational Institute and the University of California, San Diego.

Dr Reimers has skills in clinical assessment of pediatric and prenatal patients with anomalies or genetic disorders, fetal ultrasound, and care of medically and surgically complex pregnancies. She has worked as a clinical lab technician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cytogenetics lab and has a Master in Public Health degree with a focus in Epidemiology focusing on expanded newborn screening in Louisiana. Through prior research with the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN), she has skills in sequence variant interpretation and the bioinformatics of genomic sequencing.

She has experience with retrospective and prospective projects in the prenatal and pediatric genomics space including enrolling patients and she is on the Board of the International Society of Prenatal Diagnosis and active in the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine.

Dr Reimers' long-term goal as a researcher is to improve equitable counseling and care for families with pediatric genetic disorders or fetal anomalies through rapid genetic diagnosis.

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