ARUP's Medical Directors
and Consultants

Pinar Bayrak-Toydemir, MD, PhD

• Medical Director, Molecular Genetics Laboratory
• Medical Director, Genomics Laboratory

Dr. Bayrak-Toydemir is the medical director of the Molecular Genetics and Genomics laboratories at ARUP and an associate professor of pathology at the University of Utah, School of Medicine. Dr. Bayrak-Toydemir received her MD from the Ankara University School of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey, where she also received her PhD in human genetics. Subsequently, she completed her fellowship in clinical molecular genetics at the University of Utah. She is board certified in medical genetics, and her research interests include inherited vascular disorders, specifically hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, and implementation of new technologies, such as next-generation sequencing, in clinical settings.