Matthew R. Avenarius, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor, Clinical, in the Department of Pathology and serves as Associate Director of the Molecular Pathology Laboratory (Genetics). Dr. Avenarius earned his PhD in Human Genetics from the University of Michigan and did his postdoctoral research in the Barr-Gillespie Lab at Oregon Health & Science University. He continued his training at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, where he completed his clinical molecular genetics and genomics and clinical cytogenetics and genomics fellowship. Dr. Avenarius is a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics with subspecialty certification in the areas of clinical molecular genetics and cytogenetics. As Associate Director of the Molecular Pathology Laboratory, Dr. Avenarius is responsible for overseeing the development, validation, and implementation of new diagnostic assays and is active in clinical case sign-out. Dr. Avenarius’s research interests include the genetics of hereditary hearing loss and spinal muscular atrophy.