Prof Zornitza Stark is a clinical geneticist at the Victorian Clinical Genetics Services and clinical research fellow with Australian Genomics. She completed her medical studies at the University of Oxford, before training in paediatrics at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, and in clinical genetics at VCGS. Zornitza is passionate about the integration of genomic testing into healthcare, particularly as a first-tier test for rare disease diagnosis in children. Since 2014, she has played a leadership role in numerous projects through the Melbourne Genomics and Australian Genomic Health Alliances, as well as the Genomics Health Futures Mission, all aimed at accelerating rare disease diagnosis.