GENETIC TESTING AND MANAGEMENT FOR LYNCH SYNDROME/HNPCC, FAMILIAL ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS, HEMOCHROMATOSIS, JUVENILE POLYPOSIS, PEUTZ-JEGHERS SYNDROME AND OTHER DISORDERS
Dr. Lipkin is a board certified Medical Geneticist and Internist with a focus on genetic testing for gastrointestinal diseases, including the Lynch Syndrome, Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, Hemochromatosis and Hereditary Pancreatic Cancer among others. He is an internationally recognized authority on early onset and hereditary GI cancer syndromes. He is the author of MAPP-MMR, a bioinformatic program that is used to interpret whether Lynch syndrome missense variants are deleterious muations or benign polymorphisms. He practices at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He trained in Internal Medicince at Duke University and Medical Genetics at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
