Biography

Cynthia Moore, MD, PhD
Director, Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities

Cynthia A. Moore is the acting director of the Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. She serves permanently as the Division’s Associate Director of Science. Dr. Moore is a pediatrician and clinical geneticist and she completed her M.D. and pediatrics residency at the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences and her Ph.D. and clinical fellowship in medical genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine. Much of her 19-year career at CDC has been in the area of birth defects and genetic disease epidemiology and her activities have focused on mechanisms of morphogenesis, classification of birth defects and genetic syndromes, prevention strategies for exposure to teratogens, and genetic and environmental risk factors for birth defects. Dr. Moore continues to practice clinical genetics on a part-time basis at Emory University School of Medicine where she is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Human Genetics.

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