Dr. Louanne Hudgins received her bachelors degree and medical degree from the University of Kansas, and completed her internship and residency in Pediatrics as well as her fellowship in Human Genetics at the University of Connecticut. She is board certified in Clinical Genetics by the American Board of Medical Genetics. Dr. Hudgins was at the University of Arizona and the University of Washington before she joined the faculty at Stanford in 1999 where she served as Division Chief for Medical Genetics from 2008 through 2016. Dr. Hudgins is currently the Director of the Perinatal Genetics and Director of the Clinical Genomics Program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, as well as the Medical Director of the MS Program in Human Genetics and Genetic Counseling at Stanford University.
Dr. Hudgins has been active in the American College of Medical Genetics serving on the Board of Directors, as Vice President of Clinical Genetics, and as co-chair of the Professional Practice and Guidelines Committee. She is currently President of ACMG She is also an active member of the American Society of Human Genetics, the Western Society for Pediatric Research, and several regional, state and local genetics groups. She has volunteered with the March of Dimes, and is a member of the Kabuki Syndrome Network Professional Advisory Group. Dr. Hudgins has authored over 100 journal articles and book chapters, edited the textbook Signs and Symptoms of Genetic Conditions: A Handbook, and has given hundreds of presentations on various aspects of genetics and genetic counseling. Her research interests include syndrome delineation, gene discovery for “unknown” genetic disorders, and noninvasive prenatal genetic screening and diagnosis.