Fuki M. Hisama, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Childrens Hospital Harvard Medical School
Dr. Hisama is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Yale University School of Medicine. She received her M.D. degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, completed a residency in adult neurology and a fellowship in Medical Genetics at Yale New Haven Hospital. She holds dual board certification in Adult Neurology and Medical Genetics. Her research fellowship training was in Genetics with Dr. Sherman Weissman. She worked on positional cloning of a gene for familial Alzheimer’s disease, and was a co-author on the paper reporting positional cloning of the Werner syndrome (adult-onset progeria) gene. Her subsequent worked has focused on physical and transcriptional mapping of the Werner gene region, as well as functional studies of the Werner protein.
In 1998, she joined the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine, and established a Neurogenetics Clinic. The goals of the clinic are to offer clinical evaluation augmented by the use of specialized genetic testing for these rare conditions, to offer genetic counseling, to train residents in the evaluation of neurogenetic disorders, and to carry out basic research in neurogenetic, particularly neurodegenerative disorders. Dr. Hisama is the recipient of a number of awards, including a Lucille P. Markey Physician-Scientist Fellowship, a K11 Physician Scientist Award from the National Institute on Aging, a Hellman Family Foundation Award, and has received funding from the Swebelius Trust.
Dr. Hisama is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Yale University School of Medicine. She received her M.D. degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, completed a residency in adult neurology and a fellowship in Medical Genetics at Yale New Haven Hospital. She holds dual board certification in Adult Neurology and Medical Genetics. Her research fellowship training was in Genetics with Dr. Sherman Weissman. She worked on positional cloning of a gene for familial Alzheimer’s disease, and was a co-author on the paper reporting positional cloning of the Werner syndrome (adult-onset progeria) gene. Her subsequent worked has focused on physical and transcriptional mapping of the Werner gene region, as well as functional studies of the Werner protein.