Tel. 937-641-3800

Medical Director: Marvin Miller, MD

Active staff nurse: Dorothy Hollenkamp, RN

Genetic counselors: Faith Callif-Daley, MS, CGC
Ruthann Pfau, PhD, CGC
Heather Workman, MS, CGC

Location information:
The Children's Medical Center of Dayton
One Children's Plaza
Dayton, OH 45404-1815
FAX: 937-641-5325

The department of medical genetics and birth defects at Dayton Children's accepts referrals for patients of any age with personal or family history of birth defects or genetic disease. The Children?s Medical Center of Dayton's medical genetics department is one of the six regional genetics centers supported by grants from the Ohio Department of Health, Bureau of Maternal and Child Health. Dayton Children's is the pediatric referral center for its 20-county region

The genetics department provides genetic education to health care professionals, students and the community, and maintains an up-to-date video lending library on various topics in human genetics.

Why it's important to check your family's medical history

Diagnoses or conditions tested for and/or treated

• Chromosome disorders (eg, Down syndrome, Klinefelter, Turner, etc)
• Fragile X syndrome
• Mental retardation
• Developmental delay
• Abnormal growth
• Congenital anomalies
• Unusual facies
• Suspected genetic disease
• Metabolic disorders (eg, PKU, galactosemia, maple syrup urine disease, etc)
• Abnormal newborn screening tests
• Hereditary cancers
• Prader-Willi syndrome
• Angelman syndrome
• Spinal muscular atrophy
• Heriditary hemochomatosis
• Thrombophilia panel
• Cystic Fibrosis mutation screening panel

Services available

• Medical genetics consultations and evaluations
• Genetic counseling (by appointment)
• Molecular studies
• Plasma/urine amino acid qualification

Clinics:

Genetics
First, third and fifth Mondays; every Thursday

Metabolic
Second and fourth Mondays

Genetics counseling
Dayton Children's Specialty Care Center - Warren County
100 Campus Loop Road, Suite A
Franklin, OH 45005
513-424-2850
1-888-422-4453

Outreach or support programs

Logan County outreach genetics clinic (twice a year)

Outreach education in local junior high and high schools

Referral Information

Central scheduling

Phone: 937-641-4000
Fax: 937-641-4500

For online referral or fax referral form

Other information

The department of medical genetics at Dayton Children's receives funding from the Ohio Department of Health and serves as the Ohio Region II Regional Comprehensive Genetics Center (RCGC).

• ODH RCGC program
• For a brochure about ODH RCGC
• Ohio's Newborn Screening Program