Dr. Mendoza was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. He completed medical school and a masters in medical genetics at the "Pontificia Universidad Javeriana". Trained as a paediatrician at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn NY, and then completed a fellowship in medical genetics and postdoctoral training in the genetic aspects of skeletal dysplasias at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. He joined The University of Toronto and Hospital for Sick Children in 2005 where he is now the Director for Postgraduate Medical Education in Genetics. He actively participates in Teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Clinical Genetics with interest in Skeletal Dysplasias and Genetics of Bone Disorders.
Medical Education in Genetics.
Giriajan S, Mendoza-Londono R, Vlangos CN, Dupuis L, Bunyan DJ, Hatchewll E, Elsea SH: A large interstitial deletion del(17)(p11.2p13.1) in a patient with Smith-Magenis syndrome and moyamoya disease. American Journal of Medical Genetics 2007: 143 (9): pp 999-1008.
Potocki L, Treadwell-Deering D, Krull K, Glaze D, Lewis RA, Friedman E, Eifert A, Robbins-Furman P, Zackai EH, Mendoza-Londono R, Carvalho CMB, Yatsenko SA, Stankiewicz P, Bi W, Lupski JR: Multidisciplinary Clinical Study and Molecular Analyses of the Duplication 17p11.2 Syndrome. American Journal of Human Genetics 2007: 80 (4): pp 633-49.
