ARUP's Medical Directors
and Consultants

Jia Xu, MD

• Medical Director, Cytogenetics and Genomic Microarray Laboratory

Dr. Xu is a medical director for the Cytogenetics and Genomic Microarray Laboratory at ARUP and an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah. Dr. Xu received his MD degree at the Hunan Medical College in Changsha, China. He completed his cytogenetics training at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and holds a clinical cytogenetics certificate from the American Board of Medical Genetics. His recent research involved a project on the diagnosis of pediatric sarcomas using FISH probes; he has been involved in preparing a manuscript comparing FISH and PT-PCR for Ewing sarcoma samples. Dr. Xu is a member of the American Society of Human Genetics and has a board certification with the American Board of Medical Genetics.