Dr Michael Fietz performed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Adelaide, majoring in Biochemistry. After completing a CJ Martin Fellowship, in which he studied the developmental genetics of Drosophila melanogaster at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in England, Michael returned to Australia and took up academic positions in Hobart and Adelaide. In 1999, he moved to the Department of Chemical Pathology at the Adelaide Women’s and Children’s Hospital, commencing almost 20 years of leading teams in the biochemical and molecular diagnosis of inherited disorders in both Adelaide and at the Department of Diagnostic Genomics, PathWest, Perth. For the past two years, Michael has worked as a Senior Sales Specialist in Clinical Informatics at Illumina, using his experience in diagnostic pathology to assist clinical laboratories in the integration of appropriate systems for the analysis, interpretation and reporting of Next Generation Sequencing data.