Marfan Syndrome

Our Experts

The UCSF Program in Cardiovascular Genetics is a team of health care providers with expertise in genetics, cardiology, and other related medical specialties. Members of the team come from several different UCSF departments and specialties, including: the UCSF Division of Medical Genetics, the Adult Congenital Heart Defect Clinic, the UCSF Spine Center and the UCSF Comprehensive Eye Center.

Doctors

• Dr. Anthony Azakie, surgical director of Pediatric Heart Center

• Dr. Cynthia Shin-Yi Chiu, ophthalmologist

• Dr. Serena S. Hu, orthopedic surgeon

• Dr. Scot H. Merrick, cardiothoracic surgeon

• Dr. J. Eduardo Rame, cardiologist

Other Experts

Colleen Brown, a genetic counselor and clinical coordinator of the Program in Cardiovascular Genetics at UCSF Medical Center, is an expert in familial cardiovascular disease. Brown provides genetic counseling to patients with heart conditions and helps them to determine if their disease is genetic and who else in their family is at risk of developing the condition. She also helps families cope with their diagnoses of a genetic heart condition and adjust to the related personal, emotional and family implications.

Brown received her graduate degree in genetic counseling at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD and the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.