Department of Pediatrics

Education

• BA, Summa Cum Laude, Washington University in St. Louis, 2003
• MD, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, 2009

Training

• Pediatrics Residency, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, 2009 - 2012
• Medical Genetics and Genomics Residency, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, 2012 - 2015
• Foundation in Teaching Skills Program, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, 2021
• Educational Skills Program, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, 2022 - 2022

Licensure and Board Certification

• 2012 - PresMO, Medical license
• 2012American Board of Pediatrics
• 2015American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics
• 2016 - PresAR, Medical license
• 2016 - PresOK, Medical license
• 2021 - PresIL, Medical license

Recent Publications view all (12)

Publication Co-Authors

Dustin Baldridge

Marwan Shinawi, M.D.

Ina E. Amarillo, PhD FACMG ErCLG

Linda Manwaring

Dorothy Katherine Grange, M.D.

Beth A. Kozel, M.D., Ph.D.

Abby Hollander, M.D.

Tomi L. Toler, MS, CGC

Washington University has a long tradition of collaboration amongst colleagues.The faculty above have co-authored publications with Jennifer Heeley

1. Humbert J, Salian S, Makrythanasis P, Lemire G, Rousseau J, Ehresmann S, Garcia T, Alasiri R, Bottani A, Hanquinet S, Beaver E, Heeley J, Smith ACM, Berger SI, Antonarakis SE, Yang XJ, Côté J, Campeau PM. De Novo KAT5 Variants Cause a Syndrome with Recognizable Facial Dysmorphisms, Cerebellar Atrophy, Sleep Disturbance, and Epilepsy Am J Hum Genet. 2020;107(3):564-574. PMID:32822602 
2. Castilla-Vallmanya L, Selmer KK, Dimartino C, Rabionet R, Blanco-Sánchez B...Heeley J(author number 54)...Lyonnet S, Grinberg D, Amiel J, Urreizti R, Gordon CT. Phenotypic spectrum and transcriptomic profile associated with germline variants in TRAF7 Genet Med. 2020;22(7):1215-1226. PMID:32376980 
3. Torene RI, Galens K, Liu S, Arvai K, Borroto C, Scuffins J, Zhang Z, Friedman B, Sroka H, Heeley J, Beaver E, Clarke L, Neil S, Walia J, Hull D, Juusola J, Retterer K. Mobile element insertion detection in 89,874 clinical exomes Genet Med. 2020;22(5):974-978. PMID:31965078 
4. Craddock KE, Okur V, Wilson A, Gerkes EH, Ramsey K, Heeley JM, Juusola J, Vitobello A, Dupeyron MN, Faivre L, Chung WK. Clinical and genetic characterization of individuals with predicted deleterious PHIP variants Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2019;5(4):a004200. PMID:31167805 
5. Heeley JM, Hollander AS, Austin PF, Merritt DF, Wesevich VG; Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis DSD Team, Amarillo IE. Risk association of congenital anomalies in patients with ambiguous genitalia: A 22-year single-center experience J Pediatr Urol. 2018;14(2):153.e1-153.e7. PMID:29157626 
6. Pilarowski GO, Vernon HJ, Applegate CD, Boukas L, Cho MT, Gurnett CA, Benke PJ, Beaver E, Heeley JM, Medne L, Krantz ID, Azage M, Niyazov D, Henderson LB, Wentzensen IM, Baskin B, Sacoto MJG, Bowman GD, Bjornsson HT. Missense variants in the chromatin remodeler CHD1 are associated with neurodevelopmental disability J Med Genet. 2018;55(8):561-566. PMID:28866611 
7. White JJ, Mazzeu JF, Coban-Akdemir Z, Bayram Y, Bahrambeigi V... Heeley J(author number 15)... Baylor-Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics, Brunner HG, Sutton VR, Lupski JR, Carvalho CMB. WNT Signaling Perturbations Underlie the Genetic Heterogeneity of Robinow Syndrome Am J Hum Genet. 2018;102(1):27-43. PMID:29276006 
8. Shen W, Heeley JM, Carlston CM, Acuna-Hidalgo R, Nillesen WM, Dent KM, Douglas GV, Levine KL, Bayrak-Toydemir P, Marcelis CL, Shinawi M, Carey JC. The spectrum of DNMT3A variants in Tatton-Brown-Rahman syndrome overlaps with that in hematologic malignancies Am J Med Genet A. 2017;173(11):3022-3028. PMID:28941052 
9. Baldridge D, Heeley J, Vineyard M, Manwaring L, Toler TL, Fassi E, Fiala E, Brown S, Goss CW, Willing M, Grange DK, Kozel BA, Shinawi M. The Exome Clinic and the role of medical genetics expertise in the interpretation of exome sequencing results Genet Med. 2017;19(9):1040-1048. PMID:28252636 
10. Amarillo IE, Nievera I, Hagan A, Huchthagowder V, Heeley J, Hollander A, Koenig J, Austin P, Wang T. Integrated small copy number variations and epigenome maps of disorders of sex development Hum Genome Var. 2016;3:16012. PMID:27340555 
11. Heeley JM, Shinawi S. Multi-systemic involvement in NGLY1-related disorder caused by two novel mutations Am J Med Genet A. 2015;167(4):816-820. PMID:25707956 
12. Riley JK, Heeley JM, Wyman AH, Schlichting EL, Moley KH. TRAIL and KILLER are expressed and induce apoptosis in the murine preimplantation embryo. Biol Reprod. 2004;71(3):871-877. PMID:15128592