The Division of Medical Genetics serves not only the Department of Pediatrics and University of Iowa Children's Hospital, but also all other UIHC clinical units. It includes genetic counseling clinics, a neuromuscular disease program; cytogenetics and molecular genetic laboratories. The division collaborates with the state Department of Health in operating a statewide regional genetics consultation service. Faculty collaborate with medical geneticists in other clinical departments to maintain programs in prenatal diagnosis, behavioral genetics, genetic eye disorders, hereditary deafness, skeletal dysplasias, cancer, bioinformatics, and craniofacial anomalies. Active research interests of faculty include dysmorphology, molecular genetics of single gene and complex disorders, biochemical genetics, neuromuscular disorders, cytogenetics/molecular cytogenetics, teratology, and genomics. Faculty receive funding from the National Institutes of Health, as well as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and other private foundations.

Residents participate actively in the inpatient and the outpatient evaluations, treatment, and counseling of families with genetic problems. An elective experience is available. Advanced training at the postdoctoral fellowship level is offered in clinical genetics as well as in laboratory areas, such as clinical cytogenetics and molecular genetics.

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