Fuki M. Hisama, MD, FACMG
Professional Experience
Fuki M. Hisama, MD, FACMG, is nationally recognized as a leader in the field of medical genetics practice and education. She is currently Division Chief of Medical Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California-Irvine School of Medicine. Previously she served as a Professor of Medicine in Medical Genetics and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the University of Washington School of Medicine from 2009 to 2025. Dr. Hisama has also served at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Yale School of Medicine.
Education
Dr. Hisama graduated with honors from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in Biology and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Dr. Hisama completed training in Neurology, Clinical Genetics, and a Human Genetics postdoctoral research fellowship at Yale. She is board-certified in both Clinical Genetics and Neurology.
ACMG Committees/Other Organization Participation
Dr. Hisama was elected to the ACMG Board of Directors in 2023 as Clinical Genetics Director and currently serves as Secretary. She was the inaugural Clinical Genetics Section Editor for Genetics in Medicine Open, an ACMG journal.She has served as a member and chair of the ACMG Program Committee, as well as the ACMG Community, Outreach and Engagement Committee. In addition, Dr. Hisama has served on the board of directors of the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics, and the Medical Genetics Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. She is also a long-time member of, and former chair of, the Neurogenetics SIG of the American Academy of Neurology.
Research and Published Works
Dr. Hisama is the recipient of research funding from the NIH, the Brotman Baty Institute on Precision Medicine, and was a Paul Beeson Scholar in aging research. With research interests in rare diseases, progeroid syndromes, neurogenetics, and precision medicine, she is an author of more than 100 original research publications, chapters, books and online educational reviews or webinars on progeroid disorders, neurogenetics, adult cardiac genetics and cancer genetics, and diversity.