Bio

Dr. Rajkovic is currently the Chief Genomics Officer at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a Stuart Lindsay Distinguished Professor in Experimental Pathology, and Medical Director and Chief of the Center for Genetic and Genomic Medicine at UCSF Health. He earned his medical degree from Case Western University, followed by internal medical internship and residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at the Cleveland Metropolitan General hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, and subsequent Medical Genetics fellowship training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. Prior to arriving to UCSF, he was the Chief of Medical and Laboratory Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center where he oversaw Pittsburgh cytogenomic, molecular genomic and pregnancy screening laboratories as well as adult/cancer and prenatal genetic clinical services. He also served as the director for genomic training programs that spanned clinical genetics and genomics, clinical biochemical genetics, and laboratory genetics and genomics. He has served as a member and director on numerous NIH study sections and workshops, March of Dimes advisory committee on prematurity, Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Research Award Advisory Committee, and ACOG Committee on Genetics among others. He currently serves on the Bionano Genomics Board of Directors and is on the scientific advisory for Allelica, and Metis Genetics. He has been the principal investigator on NIH grants that studied various aspects of reproductive genomics, women’s health, and population genetic screening. He published more than 150 original peer reviewed articles in leading medical journals including NEJM, JAMA, Nature Genetics, Science, and JCI. He has been elected into the American Society of Clinical Investigator, American Association of Physicians and National Academy of Medicine.