David Dyment
Clinical Investigator
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute
Canada
Biography
Dr. Dyment is a clinical investigator at the CHEO Research Institute and Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa. He completed his graduate training in the genetics of complex disease at the University of Oxford and medical training in Calgary. His clinical area of interest is neurogenetics and he works as a clinician in the Neurogenetics Program at CHEO. His current research focus is the identification of disease genes involved in rare epilepsies as well as recognizable dysmorphic syndromes. He is the recipient of a CIHR Clinical Investigator award and has a Tier 2 Research Chair in Epilepsy Genetics.
Research Interest
Dr. Dyment's research interests include the application of next-generation sequencing technologies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit as well as the study of rare, monogenic forms of epilepsy. He also has an active interest in recognizable malformation syndrome such as SHORT syndrome.
