Advancements in Pediatric Patholology & Laboratory Medicine: “VMA4Kids: A Highly Sensitive Next Generation Sequencing Panel for Patients with Vascular Anomalies and Somatic Mosaic Disorders”

Dr. Avinash V. Dharmadhikari is board certified in Laboratory Genetics and Genomics (LGG) by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ABMGG) and serves as an Assistant Director in the Center for Personalized Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and as Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He has expertise with interpreting complex molecular and cytogenomic data for patient care and is a member of the ClinGen Intellectual disability/ Autism Spectrum Disorder gene curation expert panel, the Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC) Early Career Committee and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics (JMD). His major areas of research interests include the identification of clinically relevant structural and molecular variants causative of genetically heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorders, and the utility of next generation sequencing technologies in detection of the genetic causes of vascular anomalies and mosaic disorders.