Faculty & People

The Accomplished Human Genetics Faculty

Information on faculty members who have completed mentor training can be found with the Graduate Programs in Bioscience.

Primary Appointments

Paul Boutros, PhD, MBA

Interim Vice Dean for Research, David Geffen School of Medicine

Rita Cantor, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Human Genetics

Esteban Dell'Angelica, PhD

Professor and Vice Chair, Human Genetics

Guoping Fan, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Human Genetics

Nicholas Gorman, EdD, MPH

Assistant Adjunct Professor and Director of Research of the MS in Genetic Counseling Program, Human Genetics

Leonid Kruglyak, PhD

Chair, Human Genetics

Rebecca LeShay Araujo, MS

Assistant Adjunct Professor and Assistant Director of the MS in Genetic Counseling Program, Human Genetics

Nicola Longo, MD, PhD

Professor and Chief of the Division of Clinical Genetics, Human Genetics

Chongyuan Luo, PhD

Assistant Professor, Human Genetics

Julian Martinez, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Human Genetics, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Pediatrics

Stanley Nelson, MD

Professor-in-Residence, Human Genetics, Pediatrics, Neurology, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences

Paivi Pajukanta, MD, PhD

Professor, Vice Chair of Education, and Director of the Human Genetics PhD Program, Human Genetics

Jeanette Papp, PhD

Adjunct Professor, Human Genetics

Karen Reue, PhD

Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, Human Genetics

Jessica Shamshoni, MS

Assistant Adjunct Professor and Licensed Certified Genetic Counselor, Human Genetics

Eric Sobel, PhD

Adjunct Professor, Human Genetics

Marc Suchard, MD, PhD

Professor, Human Genetics, Biomathematics, and Biostatistics

Michael Wells, PhD

Assistant Professor, Human Genetics

Yi Yin, PhD

Assistant Professor, Human Genetics

Alexander Young, DPhil

Assistant Adjunct Professor, Human Genetics

Joint Appointments

Valerie Arboleda, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Human Genetics

Daniel Benjamin, PhD

Professor, Anderson School of Management and Human Genetics

Manish Butte, MD, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, and Human Genetics

Stephen Cederbaum, MD

Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, and Human Genetics

Eleazar Eskin, PhD

Chair, Computational Medicine, Professor

Jonathan Flint, MD

Professor-in-Residence, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Human Genetics

Brent Fogel, MD, PhD

Professor-in-Residence, Neurology and Human Genetics

Nelson Freimer, MD

Professor-in-Residence, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Human Genetics

Michael Gandal, MD, PhD

Assistant Adjunct Professor, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Human Genetics

Nandita Garud, PhD

Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Human Genetics

Daniel Geschwind, MD, PhD

Senior Associate Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor for Precision Medicine & Professor-in-Residence

Michael Gorin, MD, PhD

Professor, Ophthalmology and Human Genetics

Wayne Grody, MD, PhD

Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Institute for Society & Genetics, Pediatrics, and Human Genetics

Deborah Krakow, MD

Chair, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Professor

Kenneth Lange, PhD

Professor, Computational Medicine and Human Genetics

Jingyi Jessica Li, PhD

Associate Professor, Statistics, Computational Medicine, Biostatistics, and Human Genetics

Kirk Lohmueller, PhD

Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Human Genetics

Aldons Jake Lusis, PhD

Professor, Medicine, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, and Human Genetics

Loes Olde Loohuis, PhD

Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Human Genetics

Roel Ophoff, PhD

Professor, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Human Genetics

Christina Palmer, MS, PhD

Professor-in-Residence and Director of the MS in Genetic Counseling Program, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences and Human Genetics

Bogdan Pasaniuc, PhD

Vice Chair, Computational Medicine; Associate Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Computational Medicine, and Human Genetics

Matteo Pellegrini, PhD

Chair, Computational & Systems Biology; Director, Institute for Genomics and Proteomics; Professor, Medicine, Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, and Human Genetics

Harold Pimentel, PhD

Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine, Computer Science, and Human Genetics

Joseph Pisegna, MD

Professor-in-Residence, Medicine and Human Genetics

Jerome Rotter, MD, PhD

Professor-in-Residence, Pediatrics and Human Genetics

Sriram Sankararaman, PhD

Professor, Computer Science, Computational Medicine, and Human Genetics

Debora Rodrigues Sobreira, PhD

Vice Chair of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Biological Chemistry; Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry and Human Genetics

Paul Spellman, PhD

Professor, Medicine and Human Genetics

Stephen Young, MD

Professor, Medicine and Human Genetics

Noah Zaitlen, PhD

Professor, Neurology and Human Genetics

Human Genetics PhD Program Students

MS in Genetic Counseling Program Students

Human Genetics Academic Researchers and Postdoctoral Scholars

Human Genetics Administration

Lorraine Hartman - Human Genetics Student Affairs Officer