Dr. Hibbard completed her postdoctoral research in the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and her thesis research in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at UC Irvine. Dr. Hibbard has a bachelor’s degree in biology from UC San Diego and a Ph.D. in biological sciences from UC Irvine. She earned a certificate from the American Board of Medical Genetics in Clinical Molecular Genetics and Clinical Cytogenetics after training at Harvard Medical School. She is also a licensed Clinical Genetic Molecular Biologist and Clinical Cytogeneticist by the State of California Department of Health Services.
Prior to joining Clarient, Dr. Hibbard spent six years as Director of Genetics at Irvine-based US Labs, where she helped launch and direct the operations of the genetics program. She was responsible for the technical operations, including policy review, new procedure validation and case review/sign out, of the cytogenetic, FISH and molecular genetic laboratories. Prior to her work at US Labs, Dr. Hibbard spent a year as Director of Cytogenetics at IMPATH, Inc, where she started up their New York cytogenetic operation. Dr. Hibbard began her career in genetics as a cytogenetic technologist, working at San Juan Capistrano, CA-based Nichols Institute.
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