Sarah Sawyer PhD, MD

Biography

Dr. Sarah Sawyer completed a PhD in genomics at the Karolinksa Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. She returned to Canada to attend medical school at the University of Calgary where she earned her MD and completed her residency training in medical genetics. Following this, she moved to Ottawa for a one-year clinical and research fellowship in neurogenetics and translational genomics with Dr. Kym Boycott at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). Dr. Sawyer is now a clinical geneticist at CHEO with a focus in pediatric cancer syndromes. She also continues to be active in bringing next-generation sequencing technologies into clinical practice.