David Bick, MD

Titles
Medical director, Genetics, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; professor, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Division
Genetics

Research center/program
Individualized Medicine Institute

Research interests
Genetic diseases/genomics

Study interests
Learning disabilities, mental retardation, preimplantation genetic diagnosis.

Education
Medical degree, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., 1977-1981; residency, Yale New Haven Hospital, Conn., 1981-1984; fellowship, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., 1984-1986.

Certifications
American Board of Pediatrics, American Board of Medical Genetics.

Honors
National Foundation March of Dimes Summer Science Research Grant Program for Medical Students, 1978; Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, 1981; University of Texas Health Science Center At San Antonio Institutional Research Grant: "Physical Mapping of the X-linked Kallmann Syndrome Locus," 1988; Institute of Research and Education INOVA Health System: "Molecular Analysis of Colorectal Cancer Susceptibility Gene in Patients with Colorectal Polyps and Cancer," 1993.

Representative publications

• Bick DP, Lau EC. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. Pediatric Clin North Am. 2006; 53(4):559-577.
• Bhagavath B, Podolsky RM, Ozata M, Bolu E, Bick DP, Kulharya A, Sherins RJ, Layman LC. Clinical and Molecular Characterization of a Large Sample of Patients with Hypogonadotrophic Hypogonadism. Fertil Steril. 2006; 85(3):706-13.
• Johnston JJ, Walker RL, Davis S, Facio F, Turner JT, Bick DP, Daentl DL, Ellison JS, Meltzer PS, Biesecker LG. Zoom-in CGH Arrays for the Characterization of Variable Breakpoint Contiguous Gene Syndromes. Journal Medical Genetics. 2007; 44(1):e59.
• Bhagavath B, Xu N, Ozata M, Rosenfield RL, Bick DP, Sherins RJ, Layman LC. KAL1 Mutations are not a Common Cause of Idiopathic Hypogonadotrophic Hypogonadism in Humans. Mol Hum Reprod. 2007; 13(3): 165-70.
• Swanson A, Strawn E, Lau E, Bick D. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Technology and Clinical Applications. Wisconsin Medical Journal. 2007; 106(3): 145-151.
• Pedersen-White JR, Chorich LP, Bick DP, Sherins RJ, Layman LC. The Prevalence of Intragenic Deletions in patients with Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism and Kallmann Syndrome. Mol Hum Reprod. 2008; 14(6): 367-370.
• Bick SL, Bick DP, Wells BE, Roesler MR, Strawn EY, Lau EC. Preimplantation HLA Haplotyping Using Tri-, Tetra-, and Pentanucleotide Short Tandem Repeats for HLA Matching. J Assist Reprod Genet. 2008; 25 (7): 323-31.
• Kim HG, Kurth I, Lan F, Meliciani I. Wenzel W, Eom SH, Kang GB, Rosenberger G, Tekin M, Metin O, Bick DP, Sherins R, Walker S, Shi Y, Gusella J, Layman LC. Mutations in CHD7, encoding a Chromatin Remodeling Protein, cause Idiopathic Hypgonadotropic Hypogonadism and Kallman Syndrome. Am J of Hum Genet. 2008; 83(4):511-9.

Contact
Children's Research Institute
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Phone: (414) 266-2979
Fax: (414) 266-1616
E-mail address: dbick@mcw.edu