She earned her BS in Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her PhD in Human Genetics from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Hoppman then completed fellowships, and is board certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics, in both Clinical Molecular Genetics and Clinical Cytogenetics. Her main area of interest and expertise is in the application of molecular technologies to answer classical cytogenetics questions. Dr. Hoppman recently helped launched the world’s first ever clinical Mate-Pair sequencing assay for the detection and characterization of balanced chromosome rearrangements in both constitutional and oncology specimens.