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Bruce Korf, MD, PhDGeneSage - Advisors
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Bruce R. Korf, MD, PhD
Dr. Korf is Medical Director of the Partners Center for Human Genetics and an expert in neurogenetics and molecular diagnostics.
Dr. Korf is also Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.He served as Director of the Clinical Genetics Program at Children's Hospital, Boston, from 1986 through 1999, where he founded the Children's Hospital Neurofibromatosis Program.
Dr. Korf is currently the principal investigator for a multicenter clinical study on neurofibromatosis.In addition, Dr. Korf is Chair of the Education Committee and Vice President-Elect of the Clinical Genetics Committee of the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG).Further, he serves on the board of directors of the ACMG and is president-elect of the Association of Professors of Human or Medical Genetics.
Dr. Korf has written over 50 scholarly articles and has edited or written a number of texts, including, Human Genetics: A Problem-Based Approach, 2nd edition (Blackwell Science, Oxford, 2000).He is also a co-editor of the upcoming fourth edition of Emery and Rimoin's Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics (Harcourt Brace, 1997).He is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Child Neurology) and the American Board of Medical Genetics (Clinical Genetics, Cytogenetics, Molecular Genetics).