Dr. Emily Chen

Emily Chen, MD, PhD
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Emily Chen, MD, PhD.Dr. Chen is the Associate Director of the Department of Medical Genetics at Children's Hospital Oakland with 12 years of clinical experience.She received her MD and PhD from the University of Iowa College of Medicine.Dr. Chen completed her clinical training in Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center and her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.

Emily Chen, MD, Associate Director

Emily Chen, MD, PhD, is acting director of the Medical Genetics Division, Prenatal Diagnosis Center Director, and Co-Director of the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory at Children's Hospital Oakland.Emily has a research background in molecular genetics studying transcriptional factors in cancer cells and received her medical training and PhD at the University of Iowa.Her pediatric residency was done at UC San Diego and genetics fellowship was at UCSF.Emily is clinical assistant professor at UCSF.Her specific areas of interest include prenatal genetics, dysmorphology, and molecular genetics.

Peggy Conrad, MS, CGC is a genetic counselor with the UCSF Colorectal Cancer Program at the University of California in San Francisco.She received her masters degree in genetic counseling for the University of California at Berkeley, and is board certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling.Since 1997, she has been developing a hereditary colon cancer family registry at UCSF to provide education, counseling, and genetic services to individuals and families affected by hereditary colon cancer syndromes.

Emily Chen, M.D., Associate Director