Dr. Volkan Okur completed his medical school education and medical genetics residency training in Turkey. He has experience in clinical, diagnostic, and research fields of human genetics. He has been working at Columbia University since June 2015 with Dr. Wendy Chung in discovering underlying genetic causes of neurodevelopmental diseases. Among his interests are dysmorphology, genetic counseling, next-generation sequencing, single-gene diseases, chromosomal diseases, population genetics, and rare disease advocacy.