Upstate Meeting
Oct
9

Upstate Meeting

Agenda:

Historical overview of clinical genetics services in upstate NY since 1978

Luba Djurdjinovic, MS

     Executive Director, Ferre Institute Inc.

11:20 am    Current landscape and future directions of clinical genetics services in upstate NY

Celeste S. Wyman, ScM, CGC

  Senior Associate Faculty, Departments of Ophthalmology and Pediatrics, University of Rochester 

11:30 am    NYMAC resources and community engagement in expanding access to genetics

Alissa Terry, ScM, CGC

                              Ferre Institute Inc., Project Manager and Telegenetics Navigator for the New York Mid-Atlantic Caribbean Regional Genetics Network

12:00 pm    Newborn screening for Duchenne muscular dystrophy – laboratory perspective

Norma P. Tavakoli, PhD

               Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, biomedical Sciences, NYS Department of Health Wadsworth Center

12:30 pm    Newborn screening for Duchenne muscular dystrophy – clinical perspective

Bo Hoon Lee, MD

                              Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology, Child Neurology, and Pediatrics, University of Rochester 

1:00 pm      Lunch Break

2:00 pm      Mosaic results from PGT-A testing of embryo biopsies 

Jennifer Luque, MGC CGC

                               Senior Reproductive Genetics Specialist, CooperSurgical 

2:30 pm      Somatic genetic testing in oncology

                     Jessica Stoll, MS CGC 

                               Senior Director of Genetic Counseling, Tempus AI


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