Clinical Interests

Constitutional and cancer cytogenetics, molecular cytogenetics, medical genetics, cancer genetics

Research Interests

chromosome translocations and recurring abnormalities in leukemia and solid tumors, analysis of genetic consequences of chromosome rearrangements by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), utility of chromosome rearrangements for diagnosis and prognosis in neoplasias.

Biography

Dr. Roulston received a B.A. from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, an M.S. from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Human Genetics from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Genetics in the Birth Defects Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Upon completion of her training, she was appointed as Assistant Director of the Cancer Cytogenetics Laboratory and Research Associate in the Hematology/Oncology Section of the School of Medicine at the University of Chicago.

In 1994 Dr. Roulston was appointed as an Instructor at the University of Chicago School of Medicine, being subsequently promoted in 1996 to Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Cancer Cytogenetics Laboratory. In 2000, Dr. Roulston was appointed as Director of the Clinical Cytogenetics Laboratory and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan Medical School. In 2002, Dr. Roulston was promoted to Clinical Associate Professor.

Dr. Roulston is board certified in Clinical Cytogenetics by the American Board of Medical Genetics and a Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics.