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Sarah T. South, Ph.D.

Specialties

Languages

  • English

Bio

• Medical Director, Cytogenetics, Genomic Microarray, and Genetic Processing Laboratories

Dr. South received her PhD in 2001 from the John Hopkins School of Medicine in human genetics and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in prenatal genetics in 2004 at the John Hopkins Hospital and a clinical cytogenetics fellowship at the University of Utah, School of Medicine in 2009. She is board certified in clinical cytogenetics by the American Board of Medical Genetics. She is currently a medical director for the Cytogenetics, Genomic Microarray and Genetic Processing laboratories at ARUP; and an assistant professor of pediatrics, and adjunct professor of pathology at the University of Utah, School of Medicine.

Dr. South serves on the American College of Medical Genetics Quality Assurance Committee; the Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute for FISH and Genomic Microarray Technologies; the International Standards for Cytogenomic Arrays Consortium, Evidence-Based Review Committee; and, the Genetic Testing Reference Material for Genomic Microarray Consortium. She is also an active member of the Children's Oncology Group (COG) and Southwestern Oncology Group (SWOG) and is on the Board of Directors for the American Cytogenetics Conference.

Dr. South is the director of the ABMG-certified training program in clinical cytogenetics and is a faculty member in the Genetic Counseling training program at the University of Utah.

Her research interests include the development of new technologies for enhanced detection and characterization of chromosome abnormalities. She has over 40+ publications.

Locations

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Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pediatrics - Assistant Professor
Pathology - Adjunct Assistant Professor
Academic Divisions Clinical Pathology
Pediatric Genetics
Board Certification American Board of Medical Genetics (Sub: Clinical Cytogen)