Spotlight on Testing: Cardiomyopathy and Arrhythmia

Dr. Mao is a professor of pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She received her MD from Capital University of Medicine in Beijing, China, and her MS in molecular pathology from Beijing Union Medical College. She completed an otolaryngology residency at Tongren Hospital and a molecular genetics fellowship at Mayo Clinic. She is board certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics, with a subspecialty in clinical molecular genetics, and certified with the New York State Department of Health, with a subspecialty in genetic testing. She is a member of several professional societies, including American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Association for Molecular Pathology, and American Society of Human Genetics. Currently, she serves as the co-chair of the ClinGen Clinical Domain Metabolic Diseases Working Group. Her research interests include the genotype-phenotype correlations in inborn errors of metabolism and genetic diseases in the RAS/MAPK pathway; she is also involved with implementing next-generation sequencing techniques into molecular diagnostics.