Elaine H. Zackai is a Professor of

Pediatrics Pediatrics (American English) also spelled paediatrics (British English), is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, Adolescence, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, pediatrics covers many o ...

, Director of Clinical Genetics, and the Director of the Clinical Genetics Center at

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(CHOP).

Biography

She was born in

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in 1943, to a metallurgist and a high school teacher. Zackai completed her

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at the

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in 1964, followed by her

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in 1968. She is a member of multiple professional organisations, sits on multiple academic and institutional committees, and holds multiple professorships. She is also a founding Fellow of the

American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) is an organization composed of biochemical, clinical, cytogenetic, medical and molecular geneticists, genetic counselors and other health care professionals committed to the practice ...

Research

Her research has included genetic factors relating to birth defects, syndromes relating to

chromosomal translocation In genetics, chromosome translocation is a phenomenon that results in unusual rearrangement of chromosomes. This includes "balanced" and "unbalanced" translocation, with three main types: "reciprocal", "nonreciprocal" and "Robertsonian" transloc ...

, and 22q

gene deletion In genetics, a deletion (also called gene deletion, deficiency, or deletion mutation) (sign: Δ) is a mutation (a genetic aberration) in which a part of a chromosome or a sequence of DNA is left out during DNA replication. Any number of nucleoti ...

Awards and honours

* 1991 - Fellow,

College of Physicians of Philadelphia The College of Physicians of Philadelphia is the oldest private medical society in the United States. Founded in 1787 by 24 Philadelphia physicians "to advance the Science of Medicine, and thereby lessen human misery, by investigating the dise ...

* 2002 - Blockley-Osler Award * 2003 - Letitia and Alice Scott Endowed Chair in Genetics and Molecular Biology * 2007 - Master Clinician Award, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia * 2015 - Distinguished Alumni Award, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia * 2016 -

American Society of Human Genetics The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), founded in 1948, is a professional membership organization for specialists in human genetics. As of 2009, the organization had approximately 8,000 members. The society's members include researchers, ...

Mentorship Award * 2022 -

Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine's David L. Rimoin Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Genetics

Selected publications

* ''22q11.2 deletion syndrome'', Nature Reviews Disease Primers volume 1, Article number: 15071 (2015), * ''PTEN Mutation Spectrum and Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba Syndrome Suggest a Single Entity With Cowden Syndrome'', Human Molecular Genetics, Volume 8, Issue 8, August 1999, Pages 1461–1472, * ''Nonlethal presentations of CYP26B1-related skeletal anomalies and multiple synostoses syndrome'', 2021,

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zackai, Elaine Living people Academics from Brooklyn American women scientists American pediatricians New York University College of Arts & Science alumni American geneticists Scientists from Brooklyn Year of birth missing (living people) New York University Grossman School of Medicine alumni