Pinar Bayrak-Toydemir, MD, PhD

Languages Spoken: English, Turkish

Dr. Bayrak-Toydemir has focused her research efforts on understanding the molecular genetic characteristics of inherited vascular diseases. She primarily studies Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) disease. In addition to HHT, her research aims to identify genes that cause various inherited vascular malformations.

Dr. Bayrak-Toydemir is also interested in application of array technology and next generation sequencing to molecular diagnostics. Specifically, she has focused on detecting molecular genetic causes of mental retardation syndromes.

Dr. Bayrak-Toydemir is a medical director of the Molecular Genetics and Genomics Department at ARUP and an associate professor of clinical pathology at the University of Utah’s School of Medicine. Dr. Bayrak-Toydemir received her PhD in human genetics at the Ankara University School of Medicine and completed a fellowship in clinical molecular genetics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She is certified with the American Board of Medical Genetics; and a member of the American Society of Human Genetics, Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Foundation International, Inc., and the Turkish Society of Medical Genetics.