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Clinical genetics is the study of inherited disease in humans. This includes disorders of the newborn, child, and adult, which may involve congenital malformations, chromosome abnormalities, metabolic conditions, and later-onset diseases. Geneticists provide diagnosis and counseling about risks for inherited diseases for individuals and family members. My personal research interests are in inherited cancer risks, primarily breast, ovarian, and colon cancers, and in the distribution of particular disease-causing gene mutations in different ethnic populations.
Dr. Fred Gilbert is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and Associate Attending Pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He is board certified in Clinical Genetics and Clinical Cytogenetics.
Dr. Gilbert attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received an AB.S. in Biology. He commenced medical training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, where he received his medical degree (M.D.). Dr. Gilbert left New York to complete his residency in Internal Medicine at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.
Following residency, he joined the National Heart and Lung Institute at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate in the Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics under Dr. Marshall Nirenberg, and later completed a fellowship in Clinical Human Genetics at Yale University and School of Medicine.
