Dr. Fei-Yu Han

Assistant professor of
laboratory medicine
Discipline of Laboratory Medicine
Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Fei-Yu Han

Research interests
While most of Dr. Fei-Yu Han's time is currently devoted to her role as director of the Cytogenetics Laboratory, Health Care Corporation of St. John's, she also plans to establish her cytogenetics research base at Memorial in the near future. By using the techniques of molecular cytogenetics, Dr. Han is specifically interested in studying the association between subtelomeric chromosome rearrangements and mental retardation. Her research interests also include chromosomal abnormalities in leukemia and lymphomas.

Experience
From 1987-1991 Dr. Han was a cardiologist at the Fifth Hospital of Zhengzhou, China, and was cross-appointed to Henan Medical University as an assistant professor. Since 1991 she has shifted her interests to the field of medical genetics. She worked in cytogenetics for one year as a research associate at the Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Zurich, Switzerland. In 1992, she went to Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, for two years of postdoctoral training in molecular genetics. From 1994 to 1995, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University. Before coming to St. John's, she worked with the Molecular Biology Research Group of the Department of Physiology at Queen's University. Dr. Han has published extensively in the field of medical genetics.

Background
Dr. Han earned her medical degree from Henan Medical University, Zhengzhou, China in 1982. She fulfilled her five years of clinical resident training at the Fifth Hospital of Zhengzhou in 1987. In 2001 she earned a diploma in the Medical Laboratory Science Program from the College of North Atlantic, St. John's, and in 2003 she completed the Canadian College of Medical Genetics training program for cytogenetics from McGill University.