Dr. Margaret Mary Mcgovern MD, PHD
Pediatrician
Hsc T-11, Suite 020 Stony Brook NY, 11794Rating
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About
As the new department chair for the Department of Pediatrics, Dr. McGovern seeks to foster three critical missions -- providing expert clinical care to pediatric patients, educating medical students a ...
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A fluorescence-based, high-throughput sphingomyelin assay for the analysis of Niemann-Pick disease and other disorders of sphingomyelin metabolism.
- Attitudes of pediatric residents toward ethical issues associated with genetic testing in children.
- Personnel standards and quality assurance practices of biochemical genetic testing laboratories in the United States.
- Growth restriction in children with type B Niemann-Pick disease.
- Interaction of genetic counselors with molecular genetic testing laboratories: implications for non-geneticist health care providers.
- International genetic testing.
- Attitudes and psychosocial adjustment of unaffected siblings of patients with phenylketonuria.
- The natural history of type B Niemann-Pick disease: results from a 10-year longitudinal study.
- Type B Niemann-Pick disease: findings at chest radiography, thin-section CT, and pulmonary function testing.
- Referral and experience with genetic testing among women with early onset breast cancer.
- Imprinting at the SMPD1 locus: implications for acid sphingomyelinase-deficient Niemann-Pick disease.
- Use of standardized patients in, undergraduate medical genetics education.
- Acid sphingomyelinase deficiency: prevalence and characterization of an intermediate phenotype of Niemann-Pick disease.
- Report of an international survey of molecular genetic testing laboratories.
- Molecular genetic testing in the United States: comparison with international practice.
Awards
- Selected for inclusion in Best Doctors listing by Best Doctors, Inc. 2013-2014
- One of the Doctors of Excellence featured in the previous and latest 2013
- Top Doctors:New York Metro Area
- Dr. McGovern has many professional affiliations including the America
Fellowships
- Genetics, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY 1990
- Mt. Sinai Medical Center
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