Weiler, Tracey
- Associate Professor, Human and Molecular Genetics , Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
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Overview
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Dr. Tracey Weiler joined the FIU HWCOM in the summer of 2013 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics. A native of Canada, she received her PhD from the University of Manitoba’s Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics in 2001. Her doctoral research focused on limb girdle muscular dystrophy in unique Manitoba populations. Dr. Weiler continued her studies at the University of Manitoba where she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Manitoba Centre for Proteomics and Systems Biology. During that time, she developed a novel high-throughput protocol for rapid, inexpensive identification of antibody specificity using affinity chromatography and MALDI-MS and MS/MS, collaborated on studies to identify urinary ß2-microglobulin degradation products as bio-markers of chronic kidney transplant rejection and led a team characterizing c19orf10, a novel protein over expressed in the rheumatoid synovium. She then moved to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center where her research focused on identification of genes involved in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and methotrexate resistance in JIA. In 2009, Dr. Weiler moved to the Caribbean island of Nevis where she was an assistant professor at the Medical University of the Americas.
At HWCOM, Dr. Weiler is involved in genetics education of medical students throughout the undergraduate medical school curriculum. She is the Academic Director of the Graduate Certificate in Molecular and Biomedical Sciences (GCP), and the course director for GCP courses “Medical Molecular Biology” and “Medical Genetics”. She is a member of the Education Committee of the American College of Medical Genetics, the co-chair of the Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Project Group of the Intersociety Coordinating Committee for Practitioner Education in Genetics, and the chair of the AAMC SGEA SIG “Pathways, Pipelines and Bridges”. She has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and presented her work at various national and international conferences.
research interests
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Innovative Interdisciplinary Strategies in Medical Education
Population Genetics in South Florida
Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy and Miyoshi Myopathy Genomics
Kidney Transplant Rejection Proteomics
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis GWAS
Methotrexate Pharmacogenomics
Bioinformatics
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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Article
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2021Evidence-Based Practices for Culturally Responsive Medical EducationFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s40670-021-01440-6 Web of Science: 000707518800006
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2021Osteoporosis: A Small-Group Case-Based Learning ActivityFull Text via DOI: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.11176
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2019Reevaluating Biochemistry and Nutrition Education Through Opinions of Clinicians and EducatorsFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s40670-018-00652-7 Web of Science: 000624411900032
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2016Innovative Online Formative Histology AssessmentFull Text via DOI: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10337
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2010The Susceptibility Loci Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Shares With Other Autoimmune Diseases Extend to PTPN2, COG6, and ANGPT1Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/art.27688 Web of Science: 000283776400017
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2009Monitoring Methotrexate Toxicity in Juvenile Idiopathic ArthritisFull Text via DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.090482 Web of Science: 000272856200028
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2007The identification and characterization of a novel protein, c19orf10, in the synoviumFull Text via DOI: 10.1186/ar2145 Web of Science: 000247647900017
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2004Proteomic-based detection of urine proteins associated with acute renal allograft rejectionFull Text via DOI: 10.1097/01.ASN.0000101031.52826.BE Web of Science: 000187531500025
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2004Urine protein profiling with surface-enhanced laser-desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometryFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1755.2004.00352.x Web of Science: 000187276200036
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2003A proteomics-based approach for monoclonal antibody characterizationFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0003-2697(03)00469-X Web of Science: 000185720500010
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2002Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2H associated with mutation in TRIM32, a putative E3-ubiquitin-ligase geneFull Text via DOI: 10.1086/339083 Web of Science: 000173880000010
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2000The bryophyte Physcomitrella patens replicates extrachromosomal transgenic elementsFull Text via DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2000.00671.x Web of Science: 000088299900005
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1999Identical mutation in patients with limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B or Miyoshi myopathy suggests a role for modifier gene(s)Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.5.871 Web of Science: 000080109200017
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Book Chapter
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2009Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Type 2B and Miyoshi Myopathy. 1181-1182.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-29676-8_1054
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2009Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Type 2H. 1184-1185.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-29676-8_1056
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Conference
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2021Pharmacologic Management and Treatment of Osteoporosis: A Small Group Case-Based Learning ActivityFull Text via DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.02584 Web of Science: 000669893102049
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2008Methotrexate (MTX) Toxicity Surveillance in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA). 3986-3986.Web of Science: 000261587500076
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2002
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2002Genetic heterogeneity of limb girdle muscular dystrophy in Hutterites. S58-S58.Web of Science: 000180247400257
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2002Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2H (LGMD2H) is associated with mutation in TRIM32. S90-S90.Web of Science: 000180247400400
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1997Searching for modifier gene(s) in limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B and Miyoshi myopathy. A275-A275.Web of Science: 000071446001603
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1995ANOTHER LOCUS FOR LIMB-GIRDLE MUSCULAR-DYSTROPHY. 1185-1185.Web of Science: A1995RW68701186
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Letter
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2019Hoofbeats, horses, and genetic red flags. MEDICAL TEACHER. 847-848.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2018.1533244 Web of Science: 000478103600023
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Other Scholarly Work
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2021"Teaching squares": A grassroots approach to engaging medical educators in faculty development. 910-911.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2021.1929903 Web of Science: 000658613800001
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Contact
full name
- Tracey Weiler
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ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4662-4495 (confirmed)
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