Yassmine Akkari, PhD, FACMG, is the senior director, clinical laboratory at the Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Yassmine is serving as the president of the Cancer Genomics Consortium, the vice chair of the CAP/ACMG Cytogenetics resource Committee, vice chair of AMP’s Training and Education Committee, and is a member of the Children’s Oncology Group Cytogenetics Committee. She has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and two book chapters.