Dr. Lerner-Ellis completed his PhD in human genetics at McGill University and completed training in Clinical Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He currently serves as Head of Advanced Molecular Diagnostics at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Lerner-Ellis’s core research interests are in molecular diagnostics as applied to breast and colon cancer, with the aim of evaluating the extent to which genomic information can be used in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. He is focused on improving genetic testing through greater reliance on new sequencing technologies.