Laura Pollard

Dr. Pollard came to the Greenwood Genetic Center as a clinical laboratory fellow in 2007. She has completed fellowships in both clinical biochemical genetics and clinical molecular genetics and is certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ABMGG) in both specialties. She was named assistant director of the Biochemical Genetics Laboratory at the Greenwood Genetic Center in January 2011 and was promoted to associate director in 2015. In 2017, Dr. Pollard also became the Laboratory Training Program Director at the Greenwood Genetic Center.

Dr. Pollard is a member of the American College of Medical Genetics, American Society of Human Genetics, and the Society of Inherited Metabolic Disease.

The Biochemical Genetics Laboratory offers a broad spectrum of clinical testing and serves as the follow-up laboratory for the South Carolina newborn screening program. In particular, the laboratory specializes in the diagnosis and monitoring of patients with a wide variety of lysosomal storage disorders.