Biostatistician I
Medical College of Wisconsin
Ryan Gallagher, MA, is a Biostatistician I in the Division of Genomic Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Wisconsin. In his role supporting Dr. Ulrich Broeckel's pediatric rare diseases genomics lab, he specializes in leveraging advanced methods like Optical Genome Mapping (OGM) and Long-Read Sequencing (LRS) to investigate complex genetic cases. His work involves designing and implementing custom bioinformatics pipelines to analyze genomic data, focusing on the identification of rare, disease-causing structural variants that are missed by standard genetic testing. His presentation on Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy highlights a case where these novel techniques successfully identified a pathogenic inversion, demonstrating the clinical utility of OGM and LRS in providing diagnoses for patients with rare diseases.