Name: Ling-Yu Shih, MD, PhD

Title: Director of the Biochemical Genetics Laboratory, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Background: Ling-Yu (Lucy) Shih obtained her undergraduate degree and later received her M.D. from the National Taiwan University Medical School at Taipei, Taiwan in 1958. She completed a pediatric internship and residency program at that institution in 1963. Dr. Shih continued her career in the United States at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois as a Biochemical Genetics Research Fellow under Dr. David Yi-Yung Hsia from 1963 to 1968. She received a Ph.D. in 1971 from McGill University, Department of Biology, Human Genetic Sector in Montreal, Canada. In the United States Dr. Shih is board certified in Pediatrics, Clinical Genetics and Clinical Biochemical Genetics.

Dr. Shih joined the pediatric faculty of the New Jersey Medical School in 1971 and was appointed Director of the Biochemical Laboratory of the Division of Human Genetics in 1982. She is presently an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics of the NJ Medical School and a Clinical Geneticist and Biochemical Laboratory Director of the Center for Human and Molecular Genetics. The Biochemical Laboratory serves as the metabolic disorder diagnostic laboratory for the New Jersey newborn screening program and Dr. Shih is the laboratory director and clinician of the University Regional Newborn Screening Network. Languages: Fluent in Chinese (Mandarin, Taiwanese) and Japanese.

Professional Interests and Activities: Dr. Shih's clinical interests include: newborn screening, inborn errors of metabolism and particularly galactose metabolism. Since 1980 she has been active on the National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases' Scientific Advisory Committee. She has also been an advisor on newborn screening for the New Jersey State Health Department since 1982. Dr. Shih has had clinical and hospital service responsibilities for the NJ State Tay-Sachs and Neural Tube Defect Prevention Programs. The Biochemical Laboratory has served as a backup laboratory for the NJ State Department of Health Newborn Screening Program (for galactosemia and other inborn errors of metabolism).

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