Division Chief
WMed’s Division of Genetics and Rare Diseases is committed to providing top quality comprehensive clinical care, genetic counseling, nutritional and social work services to individuals and families with or suspected of a genetic condition, inborn error of metabolism (IEM) or other rare diseases. Our comprehensive team can care for patients of all ages – infants, children, adolescents, and adults – to address concerns from prenatal genetics to adult rare disease and screening with individualized patient- and family-centered care plans and services.
Genetic conditions can be suspected at any time and can have a wide range of clinical presentations involving multiple organ systems. Each diagnosis is unique, and a diagnosis can help with optimal clinical management, patient outcomes and quality of life for patients and their families.
Our team includes a board-certified geneticist, a neurologist, a genetic counselor, a nutritionist and a social worker with expertise in genetic and rare diseases, education, research, public health and advocacy. We also offer comprehensive teaching and education for our medical students and residents. Our co-located model of care allows close collaborations with all subspecialty providers to improve long-term outcomes of our patients and communities.
Shibani Kanungo, MD, MPH leads the Division of Genetics and Rare Diseases. She is a subspecialty fellowship and NIH Rare Disease Clinical Research Network trained, and is dual board certified in Pediatrics and Medical Biochemical Genetics. She completed her Master of Public Health majoring in Maternal and Child Health at University of Illinois at Chicago and completed a residency in Pediatrics at Stony Brook University and University of Kentucky.
Dr. Kanungo completed NIH Rare Disease Clinical Research Network training and postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Genetics at the University of Pittsburg College of Medicine. She went on to complete an advanced fellowship in Medical Biochemical Genetics from the University of California-Los Angeles-UCLA Intercampus Genetics Training Program. She has held faculty appointments at several academic health centers and colleges of public health, and has held leadership positions in Newborn Screening and Metabolic Disorder programs and Institutional Review Boards. She has served as an advisory member for various state and regional Newborn Screening Programs, national professional organizations, editorial boards, and has delivered scientific and invited presentations nationally and internationally.
Services
The Division of Genetics and Rare Diseases provides care for a full spectrum of genetic conditions and rare diseases at our WMed Health practice located on the first floor of WMed Health's Oakland Drive Campus, 1000 Oakland Drive, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, and also at our WMed Health - Mall Drive location at 670 Mall Drive, Portage, MI 49024.
