Michele Hibbard/Kempik

Director of Genetics
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Dr. Hibbard was the Director of Genetics for Clarient Diagnostic Services, Inc. for eight years prior to the NeoGenomics acquisition. Previously, she spent six years as Director of Genetics at Irvine-based U.S. Labs and a year at Impath labs in New York. She has been responsible for the launch and direction of the operations of the cytogenetics programs at each of these laboratories and the technical operations of the cytogenetic, FISH, and molecular genetic laboratories. Dr. Hibbard completed her clinical genetics training at Harvard Medical School. She completed her post-doctoral research in the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and her thesis research in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of California, Irvine. She is board certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics in Clinical Molecular Genetics and Clinical Cytogenetics, and holds California licenses as a Clinical Genetic Molecular Biologist and Clinical Cytogeneticist. She is a fellow in the American College of Medical Genetics and also holds her New York COQ in Cytogenetics, Oncology, and Molecular Tumor Markers.