Bruce Korf, M.D., Ph.D.
Advisor, G2MC
Former Interim Co-Chair (2023), G2MC
- Wayne H. and Sara Crews Finley Chair in Medical Genetics, Professor of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
- Chief Genomics Officer, UAB Medicine, USA
- Associate Director for Rare Diseases, Hugh Kaul Personalized Medicine Institute, USA
- Co-Director of the UAB-HudsonAlpha Center for Genomic Medicine, USA
Bruce Korf is a medical geneticist, pediatrician, and child neurologist, certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics (clinical genetics, clinical cytogenetics, clinical molecular genetics), American Board of Pediatrics, and American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (child neurology). Dr. Korf is past president of the Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics, past president of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, and current president of the ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine. He has served on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH. He chairs the Medical Advisory Committee of the Children’s Tumor Foundation and serves on the CTF Board of Directors.
Besides G2MC, Dr. Korf’s Genomic Medicine Implementation Projects include:
- CSER2: SouthSeq: Clinical Sequencing Among Communities in the Deep South
- Southern All of Us Network
- T32 Genomic Medicine
