Steven M. Lipkin, MD, PhD

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GENETIC TESTING, WELLNESS WHOLE EXOME AND GENOME SEQUENCING, EXECUTIVE MEDICINE, ADULT GENETIC DISEASES INCLUDING LYNCH SYNDROME/HNPCC, FAMILIAL ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS, HEREDITARY BREAST AND PANCREATIC CANNCER, LI-FRAUMENI, JUVENILE POLYPOSIS, PEUTZ-JEGHERS SYNDROME AND OTHER DISORDERSDr. Lipkin is a board certified Medical Geneticist with a focus on genetic testing for adult and cancer genetic diseases, including the Lynch Syndrome, Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, and Hereditary Pancreatic Cancer among others. He is an authority on cancer and adult genetic syndromes, with a particular emphasis on hereditary Gastrointestinal cancer syndromes. He is the author of MAPP-MMR, a bioinformatic program that is used to interpret whether Lynch syndrome missense variants are deleterious mutations or benign polymorphisms. He practices at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He trained in Internal Medicine at Duke University and Medical Genetics at the National Human Genome Research Institute.