Rachel D Burnside, PhD, MBA, FACMG

Dr. Burnside is an ABMGG Board Certified Clinical Cytogeneticist and brings a wide breadth of professional experience to her lab. She started her career as a cytogenetics technologist in Houston, TX in a private lab that was owned by the late genetics pioneer, Dr. Tom Caskey. This experience influenced her career, and she earned her doctorate degree from the University of Kentucky in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics. After completing a fellowship in Clinical Cytogenetics as the University of Alabama at Birmingham, she worked for 10 years as a Cytogenetics Director at LabCorp in Research Triangle Park, NC.

After later earning an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business with a certification in Health Sector Management, Dr. Burnside took her experience to industry, managing the global marketing and product management teams for Beckman Coulter Diagnostics hematology business unit based in Miami, FL.

After a brief stop with Bionano Genomics as the Senior Director of Clinical and Scientific Affairs, Dr. Burnside joined the UF Health Cytogenetics lab as Section Director in 2023. She is currently pursuing further molecular training and ABMGG board certification in Laboratory Genetics and Genomics.

Our lab specializes in the diagnosis of neoplastic and congenital genetic conditions using chromosome analysis and FISH testing.