Office and Contact Information

101 The City Dr S
ZC 4482
Orange, CA 92868
phone: (714) 456-5791
fax: (714) 456-5330
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Physician / Researcher Bio

Dr. Kimonis received her medical degree from Southampton Medical School, Southampton, UK. She completed residencies in pediatrics and general practice in the United Kingdom before moving to the US. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and fellowship training in clinical and biochemical genetics at the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins and Washington D.C. Children's Hospital. The doctor is board certified in Clinical Biomedical Genetics and Clinical Genetics by the American Board of Medical Genetics and in Pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics.

Research

Dr. Kimonis' clinical research interests are varied. She sees patients with all types of genetic disorders. She is actively working with the NIH sponsored Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network research in the Natural History study of Prader Willi and Morbid Obesity syndromes and the genetic basis of craniosynostosis. She is studying inherited muscle disorders that occur in combination with diseases of bone and/or dementia in her laboratory. Her group identified the VCP gene for one of these disorders and is now characterizing the key pathways and functions in this disorder. Dr. Kimonis' goal is to work towards establishing a premier clinical, educational and research genetics program at CHOC Children's.

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