Dr Kimonis is currently a clinician Scientist and tenured professor in the Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, UC Irvine, and Children’s Hospital, Orange County. Dr. Kimonis received her medical degree from Southampton Medical School, United Kingdom and trained in pediatrics and general practice in the UK before moving to the US.  She completed a residency in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and fellowship training in Clinical and Biochemical Genetics at the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins and Washington D.C. Children's Hospital. She is board certified in Pediatrics, in addition to Clinical and Biochemical Genetics. She previously served as the Chief of Genetics at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.  She worked at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School before joining UC Irvine in 2006 serving as the Chief of the Division of Genetic Medicine and Genomic Medicine until 2012.
          Dr. Kimonis discovered an important disease: multisystem proteinopathy associated with mutations in the VCP gene. She has an active clinical research and laboratory program that primarily focuses on inherited muscle diseases including HSPB8 and Pompe disease. Dr. Kimonis' specializes in the diagnosis and management of neuromuscular, neurodegenerative, lysosomal storage diseases and other complex rare disorders. She leads an active clinical and basic research programs that focus on inherited muscle disorders, lysosomal storage and mitochondrial diseases. Her research is funded by the NIH, FDA, MDA, VoLo, AMDA, and other foundations. Dr. Kimonis’s goal is to establish a premier clinical, and translational research program in rare genetic diseases.