Lisa G. Shaffer

LISA G. SHAFFER is President and CEO of Signature Genomic Laboratories, LLC, a
Spokane-based company she co-founded in 2003 that provides microarray-based
diagnostic genetic testing for individuals with mental retardation/developmental
delay, autism and birth defects. Dr. Shaffer is an internationally respected
expert on the chromosomal basis of human genetic disease. Currently she is the
North American Editor for the journal Molecular Cytogenetics, and on the
editorial boards of the journals Genetics in Medicine, Prenatal Diagnosis and
Cytogenetics and Genome Research. Dr. Shaffer has authored over 200 scholarly
articles and almost two dozen book chapters. She is the Chair of the
International Standing Committee on Human Cytogenetics Nomenclature (ISCN) and
is a Board member and the Treasurer of the American College of Medical Genetics.
Dr. Shaffer received her BS in Biology from Washington State University and her
PhD in Human Genetics in 1990 at the Medical College of Virginia and completed a
postdoctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.