Borut Peterlin

Prof. Dr. Borut Peterlin is a Clinical Geneticist and Neurologist, the Head of the Clinical Institute of Genomic Medicine, University Medical Center Ljubljana. He graduated from the Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, in 1987 and obtained his Ph.D. in Medical Genetics in 1993. He received a Certificate of Human Genetics from the University Rene Descartes Paris in 1990 and a license as a specialist in Neurology in 1995 and Clinical Genetics in 2009. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Medical Faculties in Belgrade, Rijeka, and Osijek. He is a past member of the Public and Professional Policy Committee, a past board member of the European Society of Human Genetics, and a member of the Advisory Council of the European Cytogenetics Association. Currently, he serves as the Vice-President of the European Society of Human Genetics and Chair of the Professional Committee of the Slovenian Association for Medical Genetics. He is a member of the editorial boards of “Public Health Genomics” and the “Balkan Journal of Medical Genetics”. His research interests are discovering new genes and mechanisms of human disorders and implementing novel genomic technologies in rare diseases, public health, and personalized medicine in health systems.