Robert Nussbaum

Robert L. Nussbaum, MD is the Chief Medical Officer of Invitae. He is board certified in internal
medicine, clinical genetics and clinical molecular genetics, and is a Fellow of the American College
of Physicians and the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. From 2006-2015, he
was the Holly Smith Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and Chief of the Division of Genomic Medicine.
Before that he served in the Division of Intramural Research of the National Human Genome
Research Institute, NIH, and, before NIH, was a Professor of Human Genetics, Pediatrics and
Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and an Associate Investigator of the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute. He received an M.D. in 1975 from the Harvard-MIT Joint Program in Health Science
and Technology, internal medicine training at Barnes Hospital/Washington University (1975-1978),
and genetics training at Baylor College of Medicine (1978-1981). He is the co-author of 277 peer-
reviewed publications in basic and applied human genetics as well as numerous commentaries,
editorials, and textbook chapters. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (IOM) in 2004
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. Dr. Nussbaum served as a member of the
Board of Directors and President of the American Society of Human Genetics, on the Board of
Directors of the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics, and was a founding fellow and
a member of the Board of Directors of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics.