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Robert Roger Lebel, MD, FACMG

Robert Roger Lebel, MD

Dr. Lebel holds BS and MS degrees in Zoology (University of Massachusetts), MA in Philosophy (Boston College), MDiv and STM (Medical Ethics) from the Theological Union in Berkeley, CA, and MS (Medical Genetics) and MD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His residency (internal medicine) and fellowship (medical genetics) were at the Milwaukee campus of the UW Medical School, where he served on the faculty in the departments of Ob/Gyn and Medicine until opening a private practice in Illinois. He has served on the faculties of Benedictine University (Lisle, IL), Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Nursing School (Chicago, IL), Clemson University (Clemson, SC), and Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY). From 2003 to 2008 he was Senior Geneticist at the Greenwood Genetic Center, Greenwood, SC, where he was director of the programs for Adult Genetics, Medical Ethics and Fetal Pathology.

Since June 2008, Dr. Lebel has been Professor of Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology and Pathology, and lecturer in Bioethics and the Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He serves as chief of the Section of Medical Genetics. He has over 230 publications in basic science, clinical syndromology, medical ethics, etc., and has served in editorial roles for several journals and books, and on a variety of national committees of the American College of Medical Genetics, the American Society of Human Genetics, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Joan Pellegrino, MD, Chief, Medical Genetics

Joan Pellegrino, MD

Joan Pellegrino graduated from medical school at the SUNY Health Sciences Center at Syracuse in 1990, then completed her pediatric residency at Strong Memorial Hospital at the University of Rochester. She completed a three-year fellowship in Medical Genetics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and remained there for another research year. She was practicing in New Jersey and moved to Upstate Medical University in 2005. She is the director of the Inherited Metabolic Diseases Specialty Center at Syracuse.

Dr. Pellegrino sees patients for both genetic evaluations and metabolic diseases. She evaluates newborns who screen positive for metabolic disorders from the state newborn screening program. She also cares for those individuals with a diagnosis of an inborn efrror of metabolism in the metabolic program. She is interested in lysosomal storage disorders and participates in a research project for this cohort of individuals.


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