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ACMG Foundation: Aleksandar Rajkovic

Apr 20, 2020

Aleksandar Rajkovic has been elected to the board of directors of the ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to facilitating the integration of genetics and genomics into medical practice. Rajkovic is a professor of pathology and obstetrics/gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the UCSF chief genomics officer and medical director and chief of the Center for Genetic and Genomic Medicine that organizes, coordinates and oversees clinical genetics and genomics services across the entire UCSF Health system. He also serves as the director of the Genomic Medicine Initiative there. Rajkovic has an MD/PhD in medicine and molecular biology from Case Western Reserve University.

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