Chris Marshall

Dr. Marshall is a Clinical Laboratory Director in the Division of Genome Diagnostics at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology. He is also board certified as a Diplomat of the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics and a Fellow of the Canadian College of Medical Geneticists. With expertise in clinical diagnostics and translational genomics, Dr. Marshall’s research focus is on applying the latest in genome sequencing technologies to end the diagnostic odyssey of patients living with rare disease. He was the inaugural Chair of the Medical Genome Initiative – a North American consortium tasked with establishing best practices and standards for clinical genome sequencing in medical laboratories. Dr. Marshall is a recipient of the William K. Bowes Jr. Award in Medical Genetics, an international award recognizing excellence in the field of medical genetics for recent trainees. As a laboratory director Dr. Marshall leads the clinical genome sequencing and informatics program in Genome Diagnostics and aims to broaden the use of genome testing to improve the health of all patients at SickKids.