Professor
Vice Chair, Clinical and Translational Genetics
Director, Program in Genetic and Genomic Prenatal Medicine
Practice Phone: 415/353-2566
Curriculum Vitae
- University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle WA 1986
- Tufts University Affiliated Hospitals, Boston MA 1990
- UCSF Medical Center, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Clinical Genetics 1993
- Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Maternal-Fetal Medicine
- Clinical Genetics
- Prenatal diagnosis
- reproductive genetics
- obstetrical ultrasound
- genetic screening
- Comparative genomic hybridization
- Microarrays
- Genomic imprinting
- Cell free fetal DNA analysis
- Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis
- Patient preferences
- Decision analysis.
Biography
Dr. Mary Norton is a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist as well as a clinical geneticist. She specializes in the care of women at high risk for having a baby with a birth defect or genetic disorder. She oversees the prenatal diagnosis program at UCSF, and is an expert in high-risk obstetrical ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis procedures such as amniocentesis and CVS. Her research interests include the use of new genetic technologies for fetal testing, and she is a national expert in the use of cell free DNA testing. She also has a particular interest in patient attitudes and preferences regarding prenatal testing.