Dr. Deborah McFadden

Dr. Deborah McFadden

Medical Advisory Committee

Deborah is a pediatric anatomical pathologist at the BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre, as well as a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of British Columbia. She works in developmental pathology, which combines pathology and genetics in the understanding of conditions that affect children. Her research focuses on learning how genetics and epigenetics – chemical modifications to DNA that influence how and when genes are turned on and off – affect human growth and development.  She attended medical school at the University of Calgary and started residency training in Vancouver in Internal Medicine, switching to Anatomical Pathology. She completed fellowships in pediatric pathology and cytogenetics at the BC Children’s Hospital.