Our Expert Team

Executive Leadership

Daniel H. Geschwind, MD, PhD

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Director, UCLA Institute for Precision Health
Senior Associate Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor, Precision Health
Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor, Neurology Psychiatry and Human Genetics

Clara Lajonchere, PhD

Deputy Director, UCLA Institute for Precision Health
Co-Director, Clinical Neurogenomics Research Center
Adjunct Professor, Neurology

Associate Directors

Alex Bui, PhD

Associate Director, Medical Informatics
Co-Director, UCLA Center for Smart Health
Professor, Radiological Sciences

Paul C. Boutros, PhD

Associate Director, IPH Clinical Cancer Genomics
Director Cancer Data Sciences, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor, Human Genetics, Urology

Nanibaa' Garrison, PhD

Associate Director, Bioethics and Community Engagement
Associate Professor, Institute for Society & Genetics

Stanley F. Nelson, MD

Pediatric Genetics

Associate Director, IPH Genomic Research Innovation
Director, California Center for Rare Diseases
Co-Director, Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at UCLA

Executive Team

Christopher T. Denny, MD

Pediatric Hematology Oncology

Assistant Director, IPH Clinical Informatics
Professor, Pediatrics, Hematology, and Oncology

Sarah M. Dry, MD

Anatomic Pathology

Chair, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Director, Anatomic Pathology
Professor, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Nelson B. Freimer, MD

Psychiatry

Director, UCLA Depression Grand Challenge
Director, Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics
Professor, Psychiatry

Wayne W. Grody, MD, PhD

Molecular Genetic Pathology| Anatomic Pathology| Clinical and Laboratory Pathology

Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pediatrics, and Human Genetics

Arash Naeim, MD

Hematology Oncology

Co-Director, UCLA Center for Smart Health
Chief Medical Officer for Clinical Research, UCLA Health
Associate Professor, Hematology-Oncology, Geriatric Medicine