The 22q11.2 Society
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Promoting research, diagnosis, prognosis, and management of 22q11.2DS & related disorders

Advisors

Jill Arganbright

Jill Arganbright
Jill Arganbright
Dr. Jill Arganbright, MD is an Associate Professor of Surgery and Clinical Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of medicine and specialized in velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPD) at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.

Natalie Blagowidow

Natalie Blagowidow
Natalie Blagowidow
Dr. Natalie Blagowidow has a board certification in clinical genetics and clinical cytogenetics. She is also a Founding Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics.

Ania Fiksinski

Ania Fiksinski
Ania Fiksinski
Ania Fiksinski (PhD) is a psychologist and researcher based in the Netherlands. She is currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at Maastricht University and the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital / University Medical Center Utrecht (the Netherlands).
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Emily Gallagher

Emily Gallagher
Emily Gallagher
Dr. Emily Gallagher is a Craniofacial Pediatrician at Seattle Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Seattle Children's 22q Program. Her research focuses on improving neurodevelopmental and academic outcomes for children with 22q Deletion Syndrome and other craniofacial conditions.
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Doron Gothelf

Doron Gothelf
Doron Gothelf
Prof. Doron Gothelf, M.D. is a full professor of psychiatry at Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, the pioneer and director of the Behavioral Neurogenetics Center, and Director of Child Psychiatry Division at Sheba Medical Center and an editor at European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Loydie Jerome-Majewska

Loydie Jerome-Majewska
Loydie Jerome-Majewska
Dr. Loydie Jerome-Majewska is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the co-Director of the Centre for Research in Reproduction and Developmental Biology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Her research aims to identify genes responsible for congenital malformations in humans and to delineate the cellular and genetic pathways regulated by these genes.
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Gabriela Repetto

Gabriela Repetto
Gabriela Repetto
Gabriela Repetto, MD is professor of Genetics at Facultad de Medicina, Clinica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo (CAS-UDD). She leads the Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases Program, aimed at shortening the diagnostic odyssey for families with unknown disorders and implementing genomic testing in Chile.
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Sulgana Saitta

Sulagna Saitta
Sulagna Saitta
Sulgana C. Saitta MD, PhD, FACMG is the Director of Reproductive Genetics, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, and geneticist at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
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Maude Schneider

Maude Schneider
Maude Schneider
Maude Schneider is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Geneva and is head of the Clinical Psychology Unit for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. She also works as a psychologist and psychotherapist with children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Kathleen Sullivan

Kathleen Sullivan
Kathleen Sullivan
Dr. Kathleen Sullivan has been at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia since 1993. She is the Division Chief of Allergy Immunology, overseeing one of the largest North American clinics for inborn errors of immunity.
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Marta Unolt

Marta Unolt
Marta Unolt
Dr. Unolt is a pediatric cardiologist who currently works at the Bambino Gesł Pediatric Hospital in Rome, Italy. She collaborated with Prof. Bruno Marino on research about 22q11.2DS and on developing the Program for adolescents and adults with 22q11.2DS, with the help of the Italian Association for Persons with 22q (Aidel22).
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Elfi Vergaelen


Dr. Elfi Vergaelen is an adult psychiatrist specialized in psychosomatic symptoms and intellectual disability. Her PhD research focused on a possible role for the immune system in psychiatric disorders in 22q11. She currently works at the University Psychiatric Center KU Leuven in Leuven, Belgium.
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Joris Vermeesch

Joris Vermeesch
Joris Vermeesch
Prof. Joris Vermeesch is a professor of Molecular Cytogenetics and Genome Research at KU Leuven. He serves as the coordinator for the Genomics Core, Leuven, and as the head of the Constitutional Cytogenetics unit at the Center for Human Genetics.

Jacob Vorstman

Jacob Vorstman
Jacob Vorstman
Jacob Vorstman MD, PhD is an associate professor psychiatry at The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Canada. He is originally from the Netherlands.
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