2020 AEC - Conference Slides

• Navigating the GC Journey: Hearing the Call, Finding Mentors and Allies, Slaying the Dragons, Leading into a Strong Future

  • Gillian Hooker, PhD, ScM, LCGC – 2020 NSGC President

• The Chatbot Will See You Now: Artificial Intelligence in the Hands of Genetic

  Counselors

  • Shivani Nazareth, MS, CGC – Product Team, Invitae

• Revisiting the Role of Ethics in Genetic Counseling Practice: Adapting Core

  Values to New Realities

  • Leila Jamal, PhD, ScM, CGC – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Affiliated Scholar (NIH Clinical Center Department of Bioethics)

• Professional Issue Panel Discussion

  • Gillian Hooker, Shivani Nazareth, and Leila Jamal

• Working Lunch:

  • Year in Review, Leadership & Committee Updates, 2020 Goals, New Leadership Introductions

    • Jordan Brown, MA, MS, CGC - MDCGC President

  • Licensure Updates

    • Carolyn Applegate, Brittney Murray, and Margo Gallegos

• Polygenic Risk Scores and Health Disparities:

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Cancer Prevention

    • Nilanjan Chatterjee, PhD – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  • Clinical Applications of Emerging PRS Technology

    • Jessica Scott, MGC, CGC – School of Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center

• Genetic Counseling Considerations Among Specific Patient Populations

  • Genetically Fit for Duty? Genetic Counseling Considerations for Military Members and their Families

    • Lydia Hellwig, ScM, CGC – Department of Pediatrics, CHIRP, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences through the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.

  • ARBOLES: A Model for Community-Specific Genetic Outreach

    • Katie Fiallos, ScM, CGC – Johns Hopkins University Kimmel Cancer Center

  • Genetic Counseling in a Fetal Therapy Center

    • Katherine Rock Forster, MS, CGC – Johns Hopkins Center for Fetal Therapy

• Genetic Counseling for Specific Conditions: What You Need to Know:

  • Adrenoleukodystrophy Through the Lifespan: What GCs Need to Know

    • Julie Cohen, ScM, CGC – Kennedy Krieger Institute

  • Continued Phenotypic Expansion of Hypophosphatasia Across the Lifespan

    • Natalie Beck, MGC, CGC – Johns Hopkins University, Department of Genetic Medicine

  • Disorders of the Immune System: Research and Practice

    • Morgan Simulik, ScM, CGC – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)