Speed Mentoring Sessions

Dr Anna Hurst is a pediatric geneticist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Smith Family Clinic for Genomic Medicine in Huntsville, Alabama. Dr. Hurst is a clinician for the UAB Undiagnosed Disease Program, Turner syndrome clinic, and general genetics clinic, and she provides metabolic and general genetic hospital consultations for inpatients at UAB and Children's of Alabama. Her interests focus on expanding the availability of genomic sequencing for children with complex healthcare needs and the combination of dysmorphology and clinical phenotyping with genomic analysis. Dr Hurst is also passionate about education, serving as the Program Director of the UAB Genetics Residency programs and Medical Director of the UAB Genetic Counseling Training Program. She is President of the national Association of Professors in Human Medical Genetics organization.