Laboratory Implementation of Clinical Genomics in Children

Angshumoy Roy, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine and the Director of Cancer Genomics at Texas Children's Hospital. He is board-certified by the American Board of Pathology in Molecular Genetic Pathology. Dr. Roy completed a PhD in Human Genetics, and residency and fellowship training in molecular genetic pathology, from Baylor College of Medicine. His research interests involve understanding the genetic and epigenetic landscape of sarcomas and rare soft tissue tumors in children. His clinical focus is in the implementation of genomic technologies in molecular diagnostics. Dr. Roy is involved in several efforts to develop professional standards and guidelines for clinical genomic knowledge curation and clinical genomic test development and implementation. His long-term goal is to increase the use of genomic testing in clinical care.