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.