Raj Kapur is a professor of laboratory medicine and pathology, and practices a combination of surgical and autopsy pathology at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He directs the autopsy program at Seattle Children’s, where his team performs expert examinations on fetuses and infants with birth defects, which are referred from around the Puget Sound region. His love of human embryology began during medical school and led to his doctoral studies of preimplantation mouse embryo development at the University of Southern California. His postdoctoral work included autopsy studies of malformed human fetuses in the Center for Human Embryology at the University of Washington, as well as basic science research related to neural crest cell migration in transgenic murine embryos. Raj earned a medical degree and a doctorate in anatomy and cell biology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He teaches Clinical Embryology for the GCGP where he reviews classic human embryology with a heavy emphasis on practical issues that relate specifically to genetic counseling.
