Tel. 937-641-3800
Fax. 937-641-5325

Medical Director: Marvin Miller, MD

Administrative Director: Sarah H. Jenkins, PhD

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

Active staff:
Roxanne Sparling, RN, genetics nurse
Tina Schafer, RN, genetics nurse
Leslie Willis, BS, CLSp(MB), genetics laboratory supervisor
Pam Nisevich, RD/LD, registered dietician

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 department provides children and adults with diagnostic evaluation, genetic testing and genetic counseling on-site or at one of several off-site locations.  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

• Clinical
  • Medical genetics consultations and evaluations
  • Follow up for newborn screening test abnormalities
  • Managment of of inborn errors of metabolism
  • Genetic counseling or risk assesment
    What is a genetic counselor?
    Breast cancer risk self-assessment
  • Coordination of genetic testing
• Laboratory 
  • Molecular (DNA) testing
  • Plasma amino acid quantification
  • Chromosome testing and FISH
  • Microarray comparative genome hybridization
  • Esoteric genetic testing- test request form (for physicians)

Clinics:

Genetics
First, third and fifth Mondays; every Thursday

Metabolic
Second and fourth Mondays

Genetic 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
Directions

Outreach or support programs

Outreach education in local junior high and high schools

Video lending library

Referral Information

When to refer for cancer genetics (for health care professionals)

Central scheduling

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

For online referral or fax referral form

Additional resources

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).

• For a brochure about ODH RCGC
• Ohio newborn screening program
• NORD - National Organization for Rare Diseases
• FORCE - Facing our Risk of Cancer Empowered
• National Cancer Institute
• Birth defects prevention
• GINA (Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act) guide
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
• Genetics home reference
• Genetics resources for the clinician (JAMA)