Yassmine Akkari, PhD, FACMG, is a senior director within the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, as well as a professor of pathology at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. She is triple certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics in the specialties of clinical cytogenetics, clinical molecular genetics, and doctoral medical genetics. She earned her BS in biology from the American University of Beirut and her PhD in molecular genetics at The Ohio State University.
Yassmine has served as president of the Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC), vice chair of the CAP/ACMG Cytogenetics Resource Committee, and chair of the Association of Molecular Pathology (AMP) Training and Education and Program Committees. Currently, she is a Member of the WHO Low- and Mid-Income Countries Committee, the chair of AMP’s Finance Committee, the vice chair of the ACMG International Outreach and Engagement Committee, and is a member of the Children’s Oncology Group Cytogenetics Committee.