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Stephanie M. Ware, MD, PhD, FACMG

Co-Director, Cardiovascular Genetics

Associate Medical Director and Director of Research and Development, The Heart Institute Diagnostic Laboratory

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-803-1750

Email: stephanie.ware@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Clinical genetics; cardiovascular genetics; cardiomyopathy; cardiovascular development

Biography

Stephanie M. Ware, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She is Co-Director of Cardiovascular Genetics in the Heart Institute as well as Associate Medical Director and Director of Research and Development of the Heart Institute Diagnostic Laboratory. She has a joint academic appointment in the Division of Human Genetics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Dr. Ware graduated Summa cum laude with highest honors in Zoology from Butler University. She earned her MD and PhD degrees at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine where she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. She completed her pediatric residency and clinical genetics fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

Dr. Ware’s research interests include the genetic and developmental basis of disorders of cardiac structure and function. Her research laboratory has made significant contributions in the areas of congenital heart defects and cardiomyopathy. Dr. Ware has received a number of scholarly awards including the Weinstein Cardiovascular Development Young Investigator Award, the March of Dimes Research Foundation Basil O’Connor Scholar Award, and the Burroughs Wellcome Clinical Scientist in Translational Research Award. She holds numerous grants and is currently Co-Chair of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular Development study section. In 2011, she was elected as the National Council Member Representing Genetics for the Society of Pediatric Research. Clinically, Dr. Ware evaluates and manages patients with genetic disorders and has specific expertise in cardiomyopathy and syndromes with cardiovascular disease. Dr. Ware is a member of the American Heart Association, the American Society for Human Genetics, the Society for Pediatric Research, and is Faculty of the American College of Medical Genetics.

Education and Training

MD, PhD: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH,1997.

Residency: Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 2002.

Fellowship: Medical Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, 2002.

American Board of Pediatrics, 2000, 2007.

American Board of Medical Genetics in Clinical Genetics, 2002.

Publications

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Tariq M, Belmont JW, Lalani S, Smolarek T, Ware SM. SHROOM3 is a novel candidate for heterotaxy identified by whole exome sequencing. Genome Biol. 2012. Epub ahead of print.

Bedard JEJ, Haaning AM, Ware SM. Identification of a novel ZIC3 isoform and mutation screening in patients with heterotaxy and congenital heart disease patients. PLoS One. 2011;6(8):e23755.

Czosek RJ, Haaning A, Ware SM. A mouse model of conduction system patterning abnormalities in heterotaxy syndrome. Pediatr Res. 2010;68:275-280.

Sutherland M, Ware SM. Disorders of left-right asymmetry: heterotaxy and situs inversus. Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2009 Nov 15;151C(4):307-17.

Ware SM*, El-Hassan N, Kahler SG, Zhang Q, Ma Y-M, Miller E, Wong B, Spicer RL, Craigen WJ, Kozel BA, Grange DK, Wong L-J. Infantile cardiomyopathy caused by a mutation in the overlapping region of mitochondrial ATPase 6 and 8 genes. J Med Genet. 2009;46: 308-314. *corresponding author

Kogan JM, Miller E, Ware SM. High resolution SNP based microarray mapping of mosaic supernumerary marker chromosomes 13 and 17: delineating novel loci for apraxia. Am J Med Genet. 2009;149A: 887-893.

Mohapatra B, Casey B, Li H, Ho-Dawson T, Smith L, Fernbach SD, Molinari L, Niesh SR, Jefferies JL, Craigen WJ, Towbin JA, Belmont JW, Ware SM. Identification and functional characterization of NODAL rare variants in heterotaxy and isolated cardiovascular malformations. Hum Mol Genet. 2009;18: 861-871.

Ware SM*, Quinn M, Ballard ET, Miller E, Uzark K, Spicer RL. Pediatric restrictive cardiomyopathy associated with a mutation in beta-myosin heavy chain. Clin Genet. 2008;73: 165-170. *corresponding author

Bedard JEJ, Purnell JD, Ware SM. Nuclear import and export signals are essential for proper cellular trafficking and function of ZIC3. Hum Mol Genet. 2007;16: 187-198.

Ware SM, Harutyunyan KG, Belmont JW. Heart defects in X linked heterotaxy: evidence for a genetic interaction of Zic3 with the Nodal signaling pathway. Dev Dyn. 2006 Jun;235:1631-1637.

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