Dr. Spector is a Professor Emerita of Pediatrics in the Division of Genetics and Metabolism. She has had a long-standing interest in inborn errors of metabolism and the laboratory diagnosis of such disorders. Dr. Spector has been a faculty member at the University of Colorado School of Medicine since 1989. She has been the laboratory director of both clinical cytogenetics and clinical molecular genetic diagnostic laboratories here and at UCLA. Dr. Spector is a founding fellow of the American College of Genetics and Genomics (ACMG). She is a current member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ABMGG)
Board certified in Clinical Biochemical Genetics, Clinical Cytogenetics and Genomics, and Clinical Molecular Genetics and Genomics