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Biography
Angela E. Lin, MD is a Board-certified pediatrician and clinical geneticist who has dedicated her career to the care of people with physical differences, especially congenital heart defects (CHDs) and syndromes. She has written almost 100 articles, chapters and reports. Dr. Lin attended St. Joseph's University and Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and completed a pediatric residency at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. After fellowship in pediatric cardiology at UCLA, and additional training at the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, she completed a genetics fellowship at the West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh. From 1990-1994, she worked at the National Birth Defects Center in Boston. After a maternity leave, she joined the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1997, where she is a Staff Geneticist, and a Clinical Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

In 2011, she and Dr. Lynne Levitsky started the multi-disciplinary Turner Syndrome Clinic. She has been a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Turner Syndrome Society of the United States for almost 10 years. She co-founded the HHT Center in 2010, and has developed a cardiogenetics service. Dr. Lin is the Co-Director of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Costello Syndrome Family Network.

Dr. Lin also works in birth defects surveillance programs as part of the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, through the MA Dept. of Public Health. She studies the epidemiology of CHDs. She is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Medical Genetics.

Publications

View my most recent publications at PubMed