Karla Bretherick

Karla Bretherick

PhD

Medicine, Department of Pathology

BC Children's Hospital

Biography:
Dr. Bretherick is an Assistant Professor in the UBC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and a Molecular Genetics Fellow in the Division of Genome Diagnostics at BC Children’s and BC Women’s Hospitals. She obtained a PhD from the UBC Department of Medical Genetics in 2008 and completed 4 years of postdoctoral training at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre. Her current research focuses on clinical validation and implementation of new technologies for use in diagnostic genetic testing.

Research Themes:

Reproductive Infectious Diseases

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