
Wayne Grody
Professor,
UCLA School of Medicine
Wayne W. Grody, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor in the Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Pediatrics, and Human Genetics, and the Institute for Society and Genetics, at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is the Founding Director of the Molecular Diagnostic Laboratories and the Clinical Genomics Center within the UCLA Medical Center. He is also an attending physician in the Division of Clinical Genetics, and director of the UCLA Intercampus Medical Genetics Training Program. Research interests include the molecular basis of metabolic diseases and various cancers, population molecular genetic screening, and genomic approaches to hereditary disease pathogenesis. He has been one of the primary developers of quality assurance and ethical guidelines for DNA-based genetic testing for a large number of governmental and professional agencies including the FDA, AMA, CAP, ACMG, CDC, and NHGRI. He served as a member of the NIH-DOE Task Force on Genetic Testing, as founding chair of the Advisory Committee on Genomic Medicine for the entire VA healthcare system, and as Past President of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. He was the expert witness for the plaintiffs in the historic Supreme Court case that invalidated patenting of human genes. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As a sidelight, Dr. Grody has been active in the film and television industries for many years, first as film critic for MD Magazine, a national leisure journal for physicians, then as technical advisor and sometime writer for a number of feature films and television series including Life Goes On, Chicago Hope, CSI, Law and Order, Grey's Anatomy, and both Nutty Professor movies. He did his undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins University, received his M.D. and Ph.D. at Baylor College of Medicine, and completed residency and fellowship training at UCLA.