Well-known pediatric geneticist Simeon Boyadjiev Boyd has joined UC Davis Children's Hospital as the first holder of the Children's Miracle Network Endowed Chair in Pediatric Genetics. He previously was at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He will serve as chief of the Genetics Section in the Department of Pediatrics. Boyd's research efforts have concentrated on congenital anomalies of the head and face, focusing on craniosynostosis, cleft lip and palate, facial asymmetry and ossification defects of the skull.