Nina Powell-Hamilton has been a Pediatric Clinical Geneticist at Nemours for 16 years and is currently the Director of the Nemours Down Syndrome Program and Co-Director of the Nemours Cardiovascular Genetics Program. Her most recent hospital appointment is Medical Director of Cardiovascular Genetics at ChristianaCare Health System, Newark Campus. She is also a clinical assistant professor of Pediatrics at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. She received her medical school training at the University of the West Indies, completed Pediatrics Residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center and a Clinical Genetics fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and Magee Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh. Her areas of interest include Down Syndrome and Cardiovascular Genetics and she has authored a number of book chapters, abstracts and journal articles. Awards received to date include Delaware Today magazine’s Top Doctors, Best Doctors in America and the Nemours Physician Service Excellence Award. She is also an invited board member of the Down Syndrome Association of Delaware.