A Short Biography:

Linda L. McCabe, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Associate Professor, Departments of Human Genetics and Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.  She is the Coordinator of the Pediatrics Research, Innovation and Mentoring Experience (PRIME) Program, and Coordinator of the Human and Molecular Development Training Grant.  She developed Human Genetics 120/220. Ethical Issues in Human Genetics.  With Ed McCabe, she developed another course, Honors 80, Genomics and the Boundaries of Self. Their book based on Honors 80, DNA:  Promise and Peril, was published by the University of California Press in March, 2008.  In 2007, they received the Eugen
Weber Honors Collegium Teaching Award for this course.  They also teach a Fiat Lux course in conjunction with the annual Center for Society and Genetics Symposium.  She was the Recruiter for the UCLA Child Health Research Career Development Award (1996-2006), and she served as a member of the UCLA Medical Institutional Review Board (1997-2005).  She is the Managing Editor of the journal, Molecular Genetics and Metabolism.

    Dr. McCabe received her B.A. from Towson State College (1969) and her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (1972).  She was an Assistant Professor at Chapman College (1972-1974).  She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at both the University of Minnesota (1974-1977) and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (1977-1979).  She was an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver (1979-1984).  She was a Research Associate at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (1984-1986) and Baylor College of Medicine (1986-1988).  She administered the Baylor Mental Retardation Research Center (1988-1994), the Baylor Laboratory Training Program (1988-1994), and the Baylor Child Health Research Center (1990-1994).  

    Newborn screening is the focus of Dr. McCabe's research.  Initially she studied the effectiveness of screening and therapy for phenylketonuria (PKU).  Her interest then shifted to analysis of molecular genetic follow-up for newborn screening for the hemoglobinopathies.

    Mentoring has been a consistent theme is Dr. McCabe's activities since she and Ed McCabe developed their How to Succeed in Academics Workshop in 1991 at Baylor College of Medicine.  They continue these workshops at UCLA.  They have given workshops at other institutions including Baylor College of Medicine, the Denver Children's Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Northwestern University, Olive View Hospital, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the University of California San Francisco, the University of Colorado Health Science Center, the University of Hawaii, the University of Michigan, the University of Utah, the University of Washington, and the West Los Angeles, Veterans' Administration Hospital.  They have also led workshops at professional meetings including the American College of Medical Genetics Annual Meeting, the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting, the NICHD Perinatology Conference, the Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting, the Pediatric Scientist Development Program Annual Meeting, the Western Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting and the Western Student and Resident Medical Forum.   In 2000, Academic Press published their book, How to Succeed in Academics.  They are currently preparing the second edition of this book.