Spend an evening with a clinical geneticist to get an overview of the field and to receive direct answers to your questions.
Family Day is an opportune time to reflect on the influence of genetics and epigenetics on our health. Rapid advances in the field may leave you confused about when to order genetic testing or how to interpret results, even if you didn’t order the test (e.g. if a patient went directly to a lab like LifeLabs).
You are invited to spend an evening with a clinical geneticist to get an overview of the field and to receive direct answers to your questions.
Our guide for the evening will be Dr. Zhuo (Shawn) Shao. Dr. Shao completed medical school at McGill University and residency in Medical Genetics and Genomics at the University of Toronto. He also has a Ph.D. in pharmacology and therapeutics from McGill. He completed his post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital. His passion is in genome-guided therapeutic approaches, including pharmacogenomics.