Speaker Profile

DPhil, FACMG, Medical Director / Clinical Molecular Geneticist, Invitae
Biography

Dr. Haverfield is board-certified in clinical molecular genetics and has more than 12 years of experience in the medical genetics field. Prior to joining Invitae, Dr. Haverfield was the director of the whole exome sequencing program at GeneDx; before that, she was the assistant director of the genetic services laboratory at the University of Chicago. Dr. Haverfield earned her Master of Science in human biology and her doctorate in biological anthropology from the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. While she was earning her doctorate and through her post-doctoral fellowship at Oxford, Dr. Haverfield worked with professors Ryk Ward and Sir David Weatherall on genetic modifiers of sickle-cell disease. She then spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow in clinical pharmacology and pharmacogenomics, studying genetic variation in drug-metabolizing enzyme genes, before completing her board-accredited clinical molecular genetics training at the University of Chicago.

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