By Aimee Tucker Williams Aimee Tucker Williams is a board certified genetic counselor. She spent 8 years as an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston and was a major contributor to their Genetic Counseling Program prior to a geographically forced retirement. Aimee is now a Professor of All Things Mom [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Guest Blogger’
May 13, 2010
Guest Post: The Counselor Intimidated: A Professional and Personal Experience with Genetic Counseling
March 16, 2010
Guest Post: Putting GC into DTC
Jill Davies is a Genetic Counsellor and the Director of Genetics at the Medcan Clinic, Canada’s leading preventive health care clinic. She has over 10 years of experience in genetic counseling and has worked in partnership with Dr. Lea Velsher (medical geneticist) to develop a preventive genetic service at Medcan. Read her full bio here. [...]
February 19, 2010
Guest Post: Letter to the Editor, CNN
Suzanna Schott has been a prenatal and pediatric outreach genetic counselor in New Mexico for the last 4 years. She was trained at JHU-NHGRI, and prior to that was a graphic designer in Atlanta, Georgia, her home town. She is interested in representations of genetics in the media, and is a frequent writer of letters [...]
September 15, 2009
Guest Post: Female Buyer Beware
By Lola Cook Lola Cook, a board-certified genetic counselor, currently works as a prenatal genetic counselor at a private hospital in Indianapolis. Previously, she worked in pediatric and adult genetics for 11 years at Indiana University Medical Center. She is the Project Director of a Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Genetics Maternal Child Health grant funded by [...]
July 2, 2009
Guest Post: Gene Patents- Why should genetic counselors care?
By Ellen T. Matloff Ellen T. Matloff, M.S. received a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude from Union College, and a Master’s in Genetic Counseling from Northwestern University. Ms. Matloff currently serves as the Director of Cancer Genetic Counseling at Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut and previously worked at SUNY Health Sciences Center [...]
June 26, 2009
Guest Post: The “Wholistic” Genetic Counselor of Tomorrow
By Jordanna Joaquina Jordanna is Director of Genetics and Co-Founder of AccessDNA.com, the first comprehensive online resource for information about hundreds of genetic conditions, topics, tests and Direct-to-Consumer providers. She is a board-certified genetic counselor with a clinical background in multiple disciplines of genetics. Read her complete bio here. At the Consumer Genetics Conference last [...]
