Darrell L. Dinwiddie graduated summa cum laude from the University of New Mexico in 2003 with Bachelor of Science degrees in Biology and Psychology. In 2008, he earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the Department of Pathology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Darrell completed postdoctoral training in virology and immunology at Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico and in human genetics at the National Center for Genome Resources in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2011, he joined Children's Mercy Hospital & Clinics in Kansas City, MO as the Director of Lab Operations for the Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine. At Children's Mercy, Darrell leads and manages the design, development and deployment of sequence production workflows and quality control systems in support of the Center's operations to develop next-generation sequencing based clinical tests. Dr. Dinwiddie is a member of the American Society of Human Genetics.