Dr. Patrick R. Gonzales is Co-Director of Cytogenetics, Consultant of Molecular Oncology, and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He completed his PhD studies in Molecular Genetics and Genomics at Washington University in St. Louis. He is board-certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ABMGG) in Clinical Cytogenetics, Clinical Molecular Genetics and Genomics. He recently led the validation of constitutional chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) at KU Medical Center. He has published nearly twenty papers in various journals and serves the Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC) as a member of the Program Committee, as well as a member of the Plasma Cell Neoplasm Working Group. He is a member of multiple societies in his field, including the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), and the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). His teaching disciplines include cytogenetics, molecular pathology, hematological neoplasia and solid-tumor neoplasia. His interests include cytogenetics, cytogenomics, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), chromosomal microarray (CMA), optical genome mapping (OGM), and genomic proximity mapping (GPM).