Speed Mentoring Sessions

Mary-Alice Abbott MD PhD has been practicing in the field of Medical Genetics since 2005, recruited to Baystate Medical Center as its first pediatric geneticist, where she continues to practice clinically and is the division chief. Hers is a small practice that delivers high quality general genetics care to patients and families in Western Massachusetts. Her clinical interests are in the areas of dysmorphology and genetic therapeutics with expertise in lysosomal storage diseases; she is on the North American Board of Advisors for the Pompe Rare Disease Registry. She has recent focus in the area of genetic therapeutics, which has included work as a clinical consultant and treating physician within the gene therapy program at UMass Chan Medical School.