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Kathleen Pope

Kathleen Pope, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences

Contact Info

Education

  • Residency, Medical Genetics, Albert Einstein / Montefiore Medical Center, 2009
  • Residency, Pediatrics, New York Presbyterian - Cornell, 2007
  • MD, Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, 2004
  • MS, Genetic Counseling, Northwestern University, 2000
  • BA, Biology, Williams College, 1998

Biography

Dr. Pope is the Medical Director for the USF Genetic Counseling Graduate Program. She has a masters degree in genetic counseling from Northwestern University in 2000 and her MD from Indiana University School of Medicine in 2004. She completed pediatrics residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center in 2007 and genetics residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in 2009. She is board certified in medical genetics and pediatrics, and has been a practicing clinical geneticist in Florida, caring for adult and pediatric patients as well as teaching students and residents, since 2012. She is currently the genetics division chief at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando, and sees medical genetics patients at Nemours, USF / Tampa General, and Baycare / St Joseph’s Children’s Hospital.