Kathleen M. Schieffer, PhD, FACMG

Kathleen M. Schieffer, PhD, FACMG, is a clinical laboratory director within the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor – Clinical within the Department of Pathology at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. She received a dual-title PhD in Biomedical Sciences and Clinical and Translational Science at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, where she studied the transcriptome and microbiome of colonic tissue from individuals with diverticulitis. Her postdoctoral work with the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital focused on genomic and transcriptomic analysis in patients with rare and refractory hematologic disease, cancer, and somatic disease enrolled on our institutional translational cancer genomics protocol. She completed a Laboratory Genetics and Genomics fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in 2021. Her current interests focus on the use of cytogenetic and molecular assays to better characterize germline and somatic disease.