Dr. Shweta Dhar
Adult Genetics,
Baylor College of Medicine
Medical Director for the Adult Genetics Service, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Shweta Dhar, MD, MS, FACMG is a board certified Internist and Clinical Geneticist and is the Medical Director for the Adult Genetics Service at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, TX and the Chief of Genetics at the Michael E. Debakey VA Medical Center. She sees adult patients with known or suspected genetic conditions at Baylor College of Medicine and at the Michael E. Debakey VA Medical Center. She graduated with honors from NHL Medical College in Gujarat, INDIA after which she pursued a residency in Pathology at the M.P. Shah Cancer Hospital in Gujarat. Subsequently she completed a Masters’ course in Biotechnology at the Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX. Following an Internal Medicine residency program at the New York Downtown Hospital in New York, NY she moved to Houston, TX to start a fellowship in clinical medical genetics and has been faculty at Baylor since 2008.
Besides her clinical endeavors, she has also been involved in research involving development of a cancer genomics program and is currently a working member of the Undiagnosed Disease Network project.
Dr. Dhar is also involved in education of medical students at Baylor college of Medicine particularly in the field of adult genetics. She is one of the track directors for the Genetics track, the first such medical school track of its kind in the country. As a recognition of her endeavors, she was awarded the BCM Fulbright & Jaworski Teaching award for Excellence in Education in April 2013, the BCM Rising Star Clinician Award in May 2014 and the Fulbright & Jaworski Teaching award for Educational Leadership in May 2015.
She has also taken her efforts nationally to increase awareness about adult genetics services and is the chair of the Adult Genetics Special Interest Group at ACMG. In this role, Dr. Dhar is involved in improving access to genetic care for adults by recently organizing the first ever adult genetics case conference webinar series hosted by ACMG.