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Tom Dennis, Ph.D.

Tom Dennis, Ph.D.Tom Dennis, Ph.D., is director of the laboratory at Shodair Children’s Hospital. Dr. Dennis earned his doctorate in cellular and molecular biology from the University of Nevada at Reno in 1999. Three years later, he completed a fellowship in clinical cytogenetics at the Washington, DC Medical Genetics Residency Program, operated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Georgetown University Medical Center.

A native of Michigan, Dr. Dennis began his career as a cytogenetics research assistant at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio in 1976. Over the next thirty years, Dr. Dennis built an impressive career in the field of cytogenetics, including serving as a research fellow at the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute’s Cancer Genetics Branch in Bethesda, Maryland.

Dr. Dennis is affiliated with a variety of organizations, including the American Board of Medical Genetics and the American College of Medical Genetics. He is the author of numerous articles regarding cytogenetic research, many of which concentrated on various cancers.