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Treating Hereditary Disorders & Birth Defects

Medical genetics is committed to providing you, your newborn, children, or adolescents with excellent care in diagnosis, management and treatment of all forms of hereditary disorders and birth defects. Our staff includes many specialists from clinical geneticists, counselors to neurologists that work as a team to develop your child’s treatment plan.

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A Relationship Created for the Best Pediatric Care

For pediatric specialty care, Intermountain Children's Health is affiliated with University of Utah Health. U of U Health physicians see patients at Primary Children's Hospital on campus, Lehi Primary Children's, and other locations throughout the Salt Lake City valley.

It's a shared mission of providing health care, education, and research. It comes to life through collaboration on clinical care, research, and educational programs.

Primary Children's Hospital operates as the main pediatric facility for the U of U Health system, providing care in more than 60 medical and surgical specialties such as surgery, oncology, cardiology, orthopedics, and others. Most of the providers at Primary Children's Hospital are faculty members at U of U Health.

This partnership delivers care to advance pediatric medicine while educating future generations of health care professionals.

Additional Location

Utah Department of Health Children with Special Health Care Needs

44 N. Medical Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84114

801-213-3599

Services

  • Metabolic Clinic
  • Lysosomal storage disorders clinic
  • Fetal alcohol syndrome
  • Newborn screening counseling & education
  • Pediatric general evaluation
    • Disorders of growth
    • Neurocognitive impairment including autism
    • Birth defects
    • Distinctive facial features
    • Hearing impairment (in conjunction with otolaryngology)

Specific Expertise

  • Neurofibromatosis (NF-1 & NF-2)
  • Prader-Willi Syndrome
  • Marfan syndrome
  • Down syndrome
  • Chromosome 22q11
  • Deletion syndrome
  • Turner syndrome
  • Chromosome abnormalities