As a college student at the University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio, Megan McMinn studied biology, hoping to one day become a physician's assistant. But a desire to interact even more with ...

The essential qualities that people are born with – such as their natural appearance, emotional temperament and body constitution – are heavily influenced by their DNA. Unfortunately, some individuals ...

As a young Black girl growing up in the heart of rural Arkansas, Shontiara Johnson saw firsthand what a lack of access to basic health care looked like. Inadequate resources at the small hospital in ...

Do like to think about how genetics contributes to medical conditions? Do you want to work in a field that helps others understand how to manage a genetic condition? Genetic counseling combines ...

Penn Medicine received a $9.7 million donation from the Warren Alpert Foundation to support the WAF-Career Ladder Education Program for Genetic Counseling. Credit: Anna Vazhaeparambil The Warren ...

In response to the growing demand for genetic counseling services nationally and regionally, the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB has hired a program director to launch a master ...

Genetic counselors (GCs) increasingly serve a variety of roles across the healthcare spectrum, including test utilization management. Our data show that utilizing the expertise of GCs reduced test ...

Because our genetics form the most essential traits that determine the biological basis of who we are, the genetics and genomics is a popular and intriguing major here at UC Davis. I remember learning ...

Altovise Ewing was a senior at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., when she first learned what a genetic counselor was. Although she had a strong interest in research, she suspected working in a lab ...

During a single year, Jessica Salamone ’99 (biotechnology) will counsel thousands of women on their hereditary cancer risk. Salamone, director of Genetic Counseling and Cancer Risk Assessment at ...

I started providing genetic counseling services in Fred Hutch’s high-risk cancer prevention clinics in 2016 and then joined Fred Hutch full-time in 2020. I live on the picturesque Olympic Peninsula ...