Angela E. Lin, MD is a Board-certified pediatrician and clinical geneticist who is dedicated to the care of people with physical differences, especially syndromes which involve the cardiovascular system. She is active in numerous research projects, and has published over 100 articles and chapters. She is committed to teaching families and trainees.
Dr. Lin attended St. Joseph's University and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, and completed a pediatric residency at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. After a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at UCLA, and additional training at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, she completed a genetics fellowship at the West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh. From 1990-1994, she worked at the National Birth Defects Center in Boston. After a maternity leave, she joined the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1997, where she is a Staff Geneticist, and a Professor in Pediatrics, Part-Time at Harvard Medical School.
In 2011, she and Dr. Lynne Levitsky started the multi-specialty Turner Syndrome Clinic, joined in 2012 by Dr. Frances Hayes (REU). She has been a member of the Professional Advisory Board of the Turner Syndrome Society of the United States for 10 years. She co-founded the MGH HHT Center in 2010, and now, as a Center of Excellence, directs the pediatric and genetics sections. Recently, she organized a national clinic committed to Myhre Syndrome, with Dr. Mark Lindsay from pediatric cardiology. Dr. Lin also developed a clinical cardiogenetics service, sees patients with "RASopathy" syndromes and works closely with the craniofacial team.
Dr. Lin also works in birth defects surveillance at the MA Dept. of Public Health, Birth Defects Monitoring Program. She was an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Medical Genetics until 2016, and remains on the Editorial Board. She is committed to teaching trainees at all levels.
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Mass General for Children: Genetics Program
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Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care
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Boston, MA 02114
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Dr. Lin is a medical geneticist clinical researcher who has delineated the clinical and molecular aspects of several malformation syndromes in major reviews (CHARGE, BOFS, Sensenbrenner, MMF embryopathy), as well as contributing cases to define the molecular basis of new syndromes (Bosma syndrome/arhinia, Myhre syndrome, macrocephaly-capillary malformation, auriculo-condylar syndrome, deletion 2q23.1). Her specialty has been studying the pattern and frequency of cardiac abnormalities, especially Costello syndrome (and other RASopathy syndromes) and Turner syndrome, and most recently, the striking pattern in Myhre syndrome (SMAD4 mutations).
Dr. Lin is a frequent participant in research about birth defects, especially those which are identified through newborn surveillance. These projects have been conducted at the Brigham-Women's Malformation Surveillance Program, and as a consultant to the Massachusetts Center for Birth Defects Prevention. As part of the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (1997-2013), Dr. Lin has focused on congenital heart defects (CHDs), especially heterotaxy. She is a frequent collaborator in projects studying risk factors for CHDs, classification of CHDs, and currently, is contributing to the analysis of critical CHDs, and CHD prevalence in adults. Through her participation as a consultant at the MA DPH, she assisted in the Zika virus rapid ascertainment program.
(N.B. PubMed lists another, "Lin AE")
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