Kara Pappas, MD, FACMG Clinical Geneticist Henry Ford Health

13 Mar 2026
Clinical Genetics

Kara Pappas is a clinical and biochemical geneticist.  She attended medical school at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, MI.  She went on to pursue a pediatric residency at the Los Angeles County - University of Southern California program.  She then completed her clinical genetics residency  and medical biochemical fellowship at the Detroit Medical Center. In the past she worked at a children's hospital primarily in pediatric and biochemical genetics with an emphasis in newborn screening. She currently works as a clinical geneticist at Henry Ford Health in Detroit, MI  seeing patients in cancer genetics, prenatal genetics, and adult genetics. She has an interest in education and is on faculty at Wayne State University; she teaches in both the medical school and the genetic counseling program.