Dr. Mao is an ABMGG board certified molecular geneticist at University of Utah and ARUP Laboratories.' 'Dr. Mao specializes in diagnosis of the patients with genetic conditions, exome sequencing in the patients for diagnostic odyssey and whole genome sequencing in the critical illness neonates. Her research interests include the genotype-phenotype correlations in inborn errors of metabolism and genetic diseases in the RAS/MAPK pathway, and she is involved with implementing Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques into molecular diagnostics. Dr. Mao is also the Co-director of Laboratory Genetics and Genomics (LGG) fellowship at University of Utah.