Genetics
The Hayward Genetics Center at Tulane Medical Center is the Gulf South
region’s only comprehensive clinical genetics center, offering state-of-the-art
genetic diagnosis, counseling, and therapy for prenatal, pediatric and
adult inherited conditions. The center offers clinical diagnostic genetics
laboratories in cytogenetics, molecular and biochemical genetics, four
Board Certified geneticists, two Board Certified genetic counselors, and
two full-time licensed metabolic nutritionists. The Hayward Genetics Labs
offer the only full-service biochemical, cytogenetic and molecular labs
in Louisiana.
Services and treatments
- Heritable conditions
- Birth defects
- Developmental delay
- Autism
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- Preconception and prenatal counseling/testing
- Adult cancer risk assessment
- Cancer genetic counseling
- Abnormal metabolic newborn screening
For additional information visit the Tulane School of Medicine Hayward Genetics Center/Human Genetics Program