Northwestern GPGC

In Person Poster Presentations (5:30-7:00PM) Karly Kern, MS , CGC  (GGT269) Measuring Historical Variant Reclassification in Inherited Retinal Dystrophy and its Impact on Clinical Genetic Testing

2:00 - 3:30 PM Liana Abramson, MS, CCG, and Megan Hinton MS, CGC Residual Risk: Useful or Misleading? A Panel Discussion About Residual Risk in Carrier Screening (Educational Breakout Session)

Heading to the first full day of the NSGC conference in Chicago on Wednesday? Here's a list of NUGPGC faculty/alumni that are presenting tomorrow:

We fully endorse the statement on the Supreme Court's decision from Northwestern President, Michael Schill. We are quite disappointed in this outcome. As a graduate program in genetic counseling, we are committed to the value of diversity in our profession northwestern.edu/leadership-not…

Are you interested in Genetic Counseling and hoping to apply to our program? Please join us for a Virtual Open House on July 19th from 4-5pm CST! If you are interested in attending, please email Elli at elli.wade@northwestern.edu for the Zoom information. Hope to see you there!

We visited Misericordia & New Trier’s ELS program today! Selfie from our school bus 😎

CONGRATULATIONS JENNIFER!

So proud of Jennifer and all her hard work on her thesis! #Defended #AAPIHeritageMonth @NUGCprogram

@NUGCprogram FIELD TRIP!

The NU Health Discovery Program is designed to expose undergraduate students with an interest in Allied Health Professions to a variety of professionals and the NU experience. For more details and to apply: feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/pthms/ou…

3 weeks left to apply for our Summer Experiential Workshop! This will take place 6/26-6/30 & is 100% virtual. Chicagoland GCs serve as faculty, giving exposure to professionals with a range of experience from across the country who work in different specialties. Apps close 4/30!

Congratulations to our recent grads, Madison and Neil for defending their thesis!

Katie Watson, JD, our Beth Fine Kaplan Memorial Lecturer during the Class of 2023’s 2nd day of Colloquium. Thank you Katie for your wonderful lecture,“How Losing the Constitutional Right to Abortion Has Changed Reproductive Medicine & Genetic Counseling, and What Might Come Next”

SO PROUD of Casey Scherer who just successfully defended her master's thesis project! This was an important act of advocacy for Casey and her #FilipinoCommunity Casey is a headed to @Stanford for a masters in Community Health and Prevention Research in the fall!

Casey has successfully defended her thesis today! What a rockstar

Congratulations to Will on completing his oral defense today for his thesis!

Our Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling offers application fee waivers to a number of students based on specific factors. Follow the link and post below to learn more. 👇👇👇

We've made changes to our Application Fee Waiver eligibility! Visit our website for more information and a link to apply for a Fee Waiver: feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/genetic-…