Teaching is an integral part of the popular elective rotation in Genetics and Metabolism which brings Pediatrics residents from UCSD and Balboa Naval Hospital to our Dysmorphology and Metabolic Clinics at Rady Children’s Hospital; a third year medical student is usually present as well. In addition to that venue for direct personal instruction, didactic sessions are presented at the RCHSD Resident Noon Lectures, and Dr. Barshop covers those sessions relating to metabolic diseases.  Dr. Barshop lectures in the School of Medicine, including this year a session of Biomedical Science 223 on the topic of Newborn Screening and a session of Cell Biology and Biochemistry on the topic of Treatment of Genetic Disease, and he participates in the Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) to second-year medical students.  He is presently mentoring one undergraduate student majoring in Biology for an independent study project and directing another majoring in Mathematics on a computer programming project.  Dr. Barshop is also invited to speak at several conferences of medical professionals each year at UCSD, Rady Children’s Hospital, and other institutions in the area. 

Dr. Bird serves as a mentor and preceptor to the Genetics residents. She participates in Case Conferences, Morning Report, resident CPC activities, Professor Rounds and Grand Rounds. For most of the year, a third-year UCSD medical student participates in one of her half-day clinics. She is also involved in resident training through the Dysmorphology clinic in Mexico.  Dr. Bird presents an average of four lectures per year to residents and faculty, as part of the Noon Conference series for the Pediatric ­residents and medical students, Noon Conference series for the UCSD NICU and Newborn nursery, the UCSD/SDSU Preventive Medicine residency, and invited lectures to various community hospitals.  Dr. Bird serves as a preceptor for the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course and administers OSCE examinations to second-year medical students. For the past several years, she has provided a summer internship experience for a premedical student from Duke University. She also recently became involved in the UCSD Medical Scholars Clinical Rotation program.

Dr. Jones has served as program director for the ABMG Fellowship Program and the Medical Genetics Residency Program. Twice a week Dr. Jones supervises a third-year UCSD medical student in history taking, physical examination, and counseling. UCSD Pediatrics and Med/Peds residents participate in outpatient clinics, as well as the cleft and craniofacial programs when they are on their genetics elective. The pediatric dental residents rotate monthly through Dr. Jones’ cleft palate and craniofacial clinics, and the dental residents each spend a day seeing general genetics patients during their two-year residency. Dr. Jones continues to mentor medical students from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California at the Hospital Infantil de las Californias.  Dr. Jones developed a two-hour clinical correlates session for first-year medical students, and has lectured for Hillary Klopoff-Cohen’s elective course, Family and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Jones presents an average of four specialty conferences a year to UCSD students and residents, as well as one Grand Rounds presentation annually at UCSD or an affiliated hospital. She is an active participant in the bi-monthly Fetal Diagnosis Conference at UCSD.

Dr. Jones has served as program director for the ABMG Fellowship Program and the Medical Genetics Residency Program. Twice a week Dr. Jones supervises a third-year UCSD medical student in history taking, physical examination, and counseling. UCSD pediatrics and med/peds residents participate in outpatient clinics, as well as the cleft and craniofacial programs when they are on their genetics elective. The pediatric dental residents rotate monthly through Dr. Jones’ cleft palate and craniofacial clinics, and the dental residents each spend a day seeing general genetics patients during their two-year residency. Dr. Jones continues to mentor medical students from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California at the Hospital Infantil de las Californias .

Dr. Jones developed a two-hour clinical correlates session for first-year medical students, and has lectured for Hillary Klopoff-Cohen’s elective course, Family and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Jones presents an average of four specialty conferences a year to UCSD students and residents, as well as one Grand Rounds presentation annually at UCSD or an affiliated hospital.  She is an active participant in the bi-monthly Fetal Diagnosis Conference at UCSD.

Dr. Naviaux teaches Biomedical Sciences 223, Human Genetics and Metabolism. This course is offered in the spring and is designed for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and elective medical students with an interest in the genetics of human disease. Dr. Naviaux gives lectures and grand rounds presentation around the world, most recently at Vanderbilt University, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, and Manipal University, India. In addition, Dr. Naviaux directs the research of three undergraduate students and a master’s student currently on rotation in the lab. 

Dr. Nyhan participates in the Metabolic Clinics at Rady Children’s Hospital, instructing Pediatrics residents from UCSD and Balboa Naval Hospital and medical students.  He has also lectured in Biomedical Sciences 223 on Disorders of Purine Metabolism.

Dr. Willis coordinates all Genetics training activities at Balboa Naval Hospital for the residents, Physician Assistant students, and medical students of UCSD and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.