Author Archives: Allie Janson Hazell
Breast Cancer Counseling: Personalizing Medicine Beyond BRCA Testing
This commentary is contributed as part of the guest blogger series Diverse GC Roles. By Shannon Kieran Shannon Kieran is a board-certified Genetic Counselor at Navigenics, a premier personal genome testing laboratory. Shannon’s clinical experience has encompassed a wide … Continue reading
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Learning to Create Opportunity
This commentary is contributed as part of the guest blogger series Diverse GC Roles. By Sarah Waltho, MS, CGC Sarah Waltho received her undergraduate B.Sc. degree in Health Studies from the University of Waterloo in June 2006. She went on … Continue reading
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Starting Something New After 30 Years
This commentary is contributed as part of the guest blogger series Diverse GC Roles. By Vickie Venne, MS Vickie Venne, MS, is a licensed genetic counselor with Genomic Medicine Services of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Prior to joining … Continue reading
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Wherever You Go, There You Are
This commentary is contributed as part of the guest blogger series Diverse GC Roles. By Amelia Chappelle, MA, MS Amelia Chappelle graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2007 with a dual masters degrees in Human Genetics and Health Advocacy. … Continue reading
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Guest Blogger Series: Diverse GC Roles
We’re trying something new at theDNAexchange this week. In response to the feedback that we’ve received about people’s interest in learning more about job opportunities outside of the traditional genetic counselling route, we’ve asked a handful of friends and acquaintances … Continue reading
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FDA Public Meeting on DTC Testing
March 8-9, 2011 As you may know, this week the FDA is hosting a 2-day public meeting about DTC testing, in an effort to develop some guidelines around regulation. It turns out that a handful of dedicated bloggers (namely Dan … Continue reading
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Digesting the Scripps DTC Study Results
Last week preliminary data from a Scripps Health study, looking at effects of DTC genomewide testing, were published in the New England Journal of Medicine (link to pdf article). The study represents the first published data of this kind. Up until … Continue reading
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Guest Post: Using your Skills Outside the GC Session
By Leslie Ordal Leslie Ordal writes and works in continuing medical education in Ottawa. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is in the process of making a career change to genetic counselling. She maintains the Twitter account GenCounsNews, devoted exclusively … Continue reading
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Happy New Year from The DNA Exchange!
Here’s a fun visual representation of the most commonly used words on our blog in 2010. Looking forward to seeing what 2011 holds…
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Genetic Counselling Awareness Week hits Canada!
Although I know much of our readership is US-based, I thought you would all be interested in an initiative of the Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors (CAGC) that is taking place this week. To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the … Continue reading
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