Melissa Carter MSc, MD, FRCPC, FCCMG

Biography

Dr. Melissa Carter received an MSc in Molecular Biology in 2001 from Queen's University and an Medical Doctorate from McMaster University in 2004. She completed the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons residency in Medical Genetics at the University of Ottawa in 2009, followed by a clinical fellowship in Developmental Pediatrics at the University of Toronto. In 2011, she joined the faculty at the University of Toronto as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and staff Clinical Geneticist at the Hospital for Sick Children. In May 2016, she became an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa and staff Clinical Geneticist at the Regional Genetics Program at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO).

Dr. Carter specializes in the genetic evaluation of individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders. She is the Medical Director of CHEO's Rett syndrome clinic and also co-directs CHEO's Angelman syndrome clinic. Her research interests include delineation of the phenotypic consequences of chromosomal anomalies and elucidation of the genetic etiologies of autism spectrum disorder.