How often patients that do not receive results of a causative pathogenic variant for their symptoms should check back with labs to see if any VUSs were reclassified Things that healthcare providers can do to provide a quality experience How labs can achieve a patient-first mindset She attended graduate school at Long Island University.ĪI programs, tools, and techniques for analyzing quality dataĪcceptable turnaround times for gene panels, exomes, and genomes ![]() She previously worked as a pediatric, adult, and laboratory genetic counselor in both direct and non-direct patient care roles. Rachel Goldberg is a Genetics Services Consultant at Blueprint Genetics. Before joining Blueprint in 2018, she completed PhD and postdoctoral research fellowships, and undertook in-depth training in genetic diagnostics in the UK’s National Health Service. She has a background in both research and diagnostics. Kirsty Wells is a Senior Geneticist and Team Lead at Blueprint Genetics where she specializes in interpretation of ophthalmology panels and whole exome sequencing data. Kirsty Wells and Rachel Goldberg, MS, CGC for this episode!ĭr. We’re joined by two experts from Blueprint Genetics, Dr. As a brand new genetic counselor, it was hard for Kira to figure out what the important aspects of genetic testing were, so she wanted to dive into what makes a quality genetic test in this episode. So she met with a bunch of labs to ask them about their tests so she could decide who she would be ordering from. When our host, Kira Dineen, began her career as a genetic counselor she was mostly starting from scratch because the private practice she works at hadn’t had a genetic counselor in two years.
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