Presenter Biographies

Christine Finn, MD
Dr. Finn is a psychiatrist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellow in genetics at Harvard. Her clinical interests include management of the psychiatric and behavioral symptoms of genetic syndromes. Research interests include VCFS (especially understanding the psychiatric symptoms associated with it) and the use of genetic information by patients and physicians.

Raju Kucherlapati, MD
Dr. Kucherlapati recently became the Paul C. Cabot Professor of Genetics and Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He is the first Scientific Director of the Harvard-Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics. Dr. Kucherlapati's recent research contributions include his participation in mapping and sequencing of the human genome.

Dita Obler, MS
Dita Obler, a genetic counselor working with the Cardiovascular Genetics Program at Children's Hospital, Boston,