Dr. Pawel Pomianowski has joined UMMC as Director of the newly-formed Division of Medical Genetics and Genomics. Dr. Pomianowski and his team are now able to provide evaluation, diagnosis, risk assessment, and management for adult genetic disorders.

A native of Poland, Dr. Pomianowski completed internal medicine residency at Penn State College of Medicine and genetics residency at Yale University. He joins us from the Christiana Care Hospital in Newark, Delaware, where he served as Director of Medical Genomics and Genetics and held an academic appointment at Thomas Jefferson School of Medicine. At ChristianaCare Hospital, Dr. Pomianowski built and developed cardiovascular genetics clinics, neurogenetics clinics, adult genetics clinics and supervised neonatal genetics and cancer genetics.  While at ChristianaCare, Dr. Pomianowski built the only comprehensive Ehlers-Danlos (EDS) clinic in the tri-state area, where he identified and managed substantial sub-population of patients with vascular EDS.  He also, along with the heart failure team, developed a multidisciplinary amyloidosis clinic which met on a bi-weekly basis. Prior to arriving at Delaware, Dr. Pomianowski trained and worked at Yale School of Medicine where he was able to develop multidisciplinary aortopathy clinic, which utilized exome sequencing for genome interrogation and started the second Clinical Genetics Clinic on the east coast for veterans at West Haven VA Medical Center in Connecticut.  There, he also started the PHASER program (Pharmacogenomic Action for Cancer Survivorship).

Pomianowski is a member of the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics as well as American Board of Internal Medicine.  His academic interests are adult genetics, specifically cardiovascular genetics. He has a number of scientific publications/presentations to his credit.

The new Division of Medical Genetics and Genomics offers a comprehensive cardiovascular, neurological, cancer, and adult genetic assessment. They perform pre- and post-testing counseling which includes screening and management recommendations based on family history and/or genetic test results. They aim to assist with genetic diagnoses and instruct patients on the genetic impact to their personal and family health. This team can offer patients  specific testing and management as per guidelines associated with each genetic etiology.