ThinkGenetic is very excited to be a sponsor at the upcoming 2016 Genetic Counseling Fall Symposium in Columbia, South Carolina on November 11, 2016.
Focusing on the needs of genetic counselors, geneticists, university faculty, students, residents, fellows and health care professionals this special event hopes to “build knowledge and skills as we incorporate clinical applications of genomic medicine.” An impressive agenda has been put together ranging in topics from Exome Sequencing for Newborn Screening to Gene Therapy to Ovarian and Breast Cancer.
When asked why supporting the event was so important to ThinkGenetic, Co-Founder Dawn Jacob Laney, MS, CGC, CCRC said, “Genetic counselors are amazing patient advocates and we like to promote educational events, like the USC Fall Symposium, that help genetic counselors reach important resources to continue to learn about new changes in genetic diseases. Also, any opportunity to support the training of new genetic counselors when there’s such a need is important to our mission.”
ThinkGenetic will be there and we hope you will be too. Don’t wait, the 11th is right around the corner! Make sure you submit your registration today at: http://geneticcounseling.med.sc.edu/Fall.Symposium.asp. Also, don’t forget to share the event with others using #USCGCFallSymposium.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Agenda as of 11/2/2016. See the most recent version here
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| 7:30 | Symposium Registration |
| 8:00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks Janice G. Edwards, MS, CGC |
| 8:15 | The Utility of Whole Exome Sequencing in Prenatal Diagnosis Magdalena Walkiewicz, PhD Baylor College of Medicine |
| 9:00 | Just Because We Can, Should We? Exome Sequencing for Newborn Screening Julianne O’Daniel, MS, CGC University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 9:45 | Gene Therapy Targeting the Root Cause Treatment of Neuropathic Lysosomal Storage Diseases Haiyan Fu, PhD Nationwide Children’s Hospital Center for Gene Therapy |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | The Amelia Craver Special Lectures The Yin and Yang of Cancer GeneticsPediatric Cancer Predisposition in the Genomics Era Uri Tabori, MDUniversity of Toronto Hospital for SickKids |
| 11:45 | Biallelic Mismatch Repair Deficiency Syndrome: Exploiting Hypermutations to Save Lives Uri Tabori, MD University of Toronto Hospital for SickKids |
| 12:30 | Networking Luncheon Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital C. Warren Derrick Room and Lobby |
| 1:45 | Is Information Power? Population Screening for Inherited Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk Kelly East, MS, CGC HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology |
| 2:30 | Genesurance and Marketing Madness Quinn Stein, MS, CGC Augustana University |
| 3:30 | Closing Remarks |
| The National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) has authorized the University of South Carolina to offer up to 0.55 CEUs or 5.5 Category 1 contact hours for the event: USC Genetic Counseling Fall Symposium. The American Board of Genetic Counseling (ABGC) will accept CEUs earned at this program for the purposes of genetic counselor certification and recertification. | |
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