Rena Falk, MD
Medical Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory; Director, Prenatal Diagnosis Center
Rena E. Falk, MD is Co-Director of the Prenatal Diagnosis Center and Medical Director of the Cytogenetics Laboratory at Cedars-Sinai. Dr. Falk supervises the staff of genetic counselors and personally provides counseling to couples with medically significant prenatal risk factors or abnormal results of prenatal diagnostic studies.
Board certified in pediatrics, clinical genetics and clinical cytogenetics, Dr. Falk is also a professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She previously served at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, where she spent nearly 16 years focused in cytogenetics, prenatal diagnosis and dysmorphology.
Dr. Falk's research interests include the genetic aspects of hearing loss and deafness, delineation of chromosomal abnormalities and the clinical correlates of cytogenetic disorders, prenatal diagnosis and counseling, and delineation of clinical syndromes. She is currently an investigator on two collaborative, multi-center studies dealing with improving prenatal screening for Down syndrome and other disorders.
Dr. Falk received her bachelor's and medical degrees at UCLA. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she received the Leo G. Rigler Award in Pediatrics. She also completed a fellowship in medical genetics at UCLA and spent two years as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) fellow in molecular biology.
