SERGG’s President

Meet Our President: Hans Andersson, MD, FACMG

Hans C. Andersson received his BS in Music and Psychology and his MD from Tulane University. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at the Tulane School of Medicine and Clinical Genetics and Clinical Biochemical Genetics fellowships at the National Institutes of Health at the Hayward Genetics Center. As an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, he worked for two years in the lysosomal labs at University of Göttingen, Germany.

Dr. Andersson is the Karen Gore Chair of Human Genetics and Director of the Hayward Genetics Center at the Tulane University Medical School where he directs the Biochemical Genetics Lab and a clinical team of clinicians, genetic counselors and metabolic nutritionists. He has been active in SERGG since the late 1990s and was past President in 2006-08. He was Co-PI of the SouthEast Regional Network from 2005- 2024. His research has elucidated clinical features and pathophysiology of inherited metabolic genetic disorders. He is the past Chair of the National Coordinating Center Telegenetics Workgroup and a member of the Disaster Preparedness Workgroup. Dr. Andersson has been a life-long resident of New Orleans and played a critical role in the reestablishment of clinical genetics in Louisiana following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

SERGG’s Immediate Past President

Meet Our Immediate Past President: Barbara DuPont, PhD

Dr. DuPont is board certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics (1996) in clinical cytogenetics. She is a member of the American Society of Human Genetics, and a fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics. She is also a reviewer for a number of scientific journals including American Journal of Medical Genetics and Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics. She received her Ph.D. in Zoology/Human Genetics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989.

Her major areas of research interest include subtelomere rearrangements, phenotype/genotype mapping of chromosome rearrangements and deletion syndromes, the mechanisms of chromosome rearrangements, as well as, chromosome alterations in cancer. She joined the Greenwood Genetic Center in 1999 and became the Senior Director of the Cytogentics Laboratory in 2013.