In 1957, the University of Washington’s (UW) Division of Medical Genetics was established in the Department of Medicine the same year as the founding of the Johns Hopkins division. Shortly thereafter, Arno opened the genetics clinic at UW. He led the division until 1989.

The Division of Medical Genetics was founded by Dr. Arno Motulsky, known as the “father of pharmacogenetics.” Then one of the few genetic disease and counseling clinics in the country, it remains prominent today.

This established UW at the time as one of only a few medical schools providing training in medical genetics, and as one of the first clinics in the country to provide family counseling for genetic diseases and to employ women in this profession.