Rhona Schreck, PhD
Director, Clinical Cytogenetics Laboratory
Rhona Schreck is Director of the Clinical Cytogenetics Laboratory at Cedars-Sinai. Dr. Schreck is also a professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She previously worked in the clinical cytogenetics laboratories at UCLA and Children's Hospital Boston.
A diplomat of the American Board of Medical Genetics, Dr. Schreck is certified in cytogenetics and is a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics. She has also served on the exam writing committee of the American Board of Medical Genetics, and she received a Cedars-Sinai Medical Center President's Award in 2000.
Dr. Schreck has conducted research on the structural organization of chromosomes and the pharmacogenetics of carcinogen activation. She has written numerous papers on research and clinical cytogenetics for such peer-reviewed publications as the American Journal of Human Genetics, American Journal of Medical Genetics, Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Dr. Schreck received her bachelor's degree in biology from The City College of New York. She earned her doctorate degree from the department of Human Genetics and Development at Columbia University in New York, where she held a faculty fellowship and was a National Institutes of Health (NIH) trainee. She completed her postdoctoral training in the division of clinical genetics at Children's Hospital Boston and was an instructor in pediatrics at the Harvard University Medical School.
