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Dr. Slavotinek is certified in Clinical Genetics and worked as a Medical Geneticist at the University of California, San Francisco, from 2002 until 2022 prior to moving to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center as Division Director for Human Genetics. She specializes in rare diseases, dysmorphology and clinical genomics. Dr. Slavotinek received her medical degree from the University of Adelaide and her Ph.D from Flinders University whilst studying in Edinburgh at the MRC Human Genetics Unit in the United Kingdom. She trained in Clinical Genetics in Oxford and Manchester in the United Kingdom and then did a postdoctoral Fellowship and a Genetics Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. She has held leadership positions for the American College of Medical Genetics and the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics. Dr. Slavotinek is a Co-Editor in Chief for the American Journal of Medical Genetics and an author on more than 280 peer-reviewed publications. She was a Principal Investigator for the UCSF site of the Clinical Sequencing Evidence Generating Research (CSER) consortium. She also directs an NIH-funded laboratory that uses next-generation sequencing technologies and animal models to study the etiology of developmental eye defects and multiple congenital anomaly syndromes.