Dr. Abdul Noor serves as Director of Genetic Diagnostics in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PLM) at the Mount Sinai Hospital. His research uses genomic technologies such as high-density microarrays and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) to understand the genetic basis of developmental disorders and for the diagnosis of genetic disorders. Dr. Noor received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto for the study of genomic copy number variations (CNVs) to understand the etiology of autism and intellectual disability. After his Ph.D., he worked in the Cytogenetic Lab at the Hospital for Sick Children for two years, where he gained extensive experience in the clinical reporting of genomic structural variations. He completed his Canadian College of Medical Geneticists (CCMG) fellowship in Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto.