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Top Docs ’11: Clinical Genetics
Genetically linked diseases
By Seattle Mag December 31, 1969
CLINICAL GENETICS
Kathleen Leppig, M.D., Group Health Cooperative, 201 16th Ave. E, 206.326.2525; Case Western Reserve University, 1986; cytogenetic disorders
Roberta A. Pagon, M.D., Seattle Children’s Hospital, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, 206.987.2056, University of Washington Medical Center; Harvard Medical School, 1972; hereditary eye diseases, sexual differentiation disorders, pediatric genetics
Virginia Sybert, M.D., University of Washington Medical Center, 1959 NE Pacific St., 206.598.4030, Group Health Cooperative; State University of New York at Buffalo, 1974; pediatric dermatology, inherited disorders
Originally published in July 2011
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