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Christina (Christy) Tise, MD, PhD
Clinical advisor · Clinical geneticist
Christina (Christy) Tise, MD, PhD, is a clinical geneticist, physician-scientist, and clinical advisor to Reticular. Her research focuses on the genetic causes of recurrent pregnancy loss and the effects of inherited metabolic conditions on reproduction, pregnancy, and newborn health.
Clinical and academic background
Dr. Tise directs the Reproductive Genetics Clinic at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Genetics) at Stanford, with a courtesy appointment in Obstetrics & Gynecology (Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility).
She is board-certified in Clinical Genetics and Genomics and Clinical Biochemical Genetics. She earned her MD and PhD in Human Genetics and Genomic Medicine at the University of Maryland and completed her medical genetics residency and clinical biochemical genetics fellowship at Stanford.
Research focus
Her work connects clinical genetics with questions about pregnancy loss, carrier screening, and newborn health. She contributed to the development of TRIOS, a multi-site, NIH-funded study investigating the genetic causes of recurrent pregnancy loss.
Her publications include research on interpreting genetic variants in pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and neonatal death, as well as the limitations of expanded carrier screening.
Academic affiliations are provided for biographical context and do not imply institutional endorsement of Reticular.