Medical Genetics Grand Rounds (GENE 284)

Medical Genetics Grand Rounds (GENE 284) will be held on Fridays from 9:30am-10:00am in the CAM Grand Rounds Room (unless otherwise noted) and via Zoom.

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
9/26/25 Matt Hall, MS, CGC Genetics of Dementia
10/3/25 Emily Kohl, BS Caring for 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome in Adulthood: Special Considerations Across the Lifespan
10/10/25  Svetlana Yatsenko, MD Uniparental Disomy: Molecular mechanisms and diagnostic approaches
10/17/25 Sara Gerber, BA Innovative Approaches to Identification and Diagnosis of Familial Hypercholesterolemia
10/24/25 Hallie Ryan, BS Approaches to Informed Consent in the Critical Care Setting
10/31/25 Molly Heck, BS Alternative Service Delivery Models: Reimagining Genetic Information Delivery to Patients
11/7/25 Cindy Yang, PhD Clinical utility of maternal cell contamination testing in prenatal cytogenetics
11/14/25 Emma Draisin, BS The X Factor in Immunity: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications of Sex-Linked Immune Bias
11/21/25 Maurine Jouret, MD An Overview of H Syndrome (SCL29A3 disorders) : A genetic histiocytosis at the crossroads of innate and adaptive immunity
12/5/25 Kristine Ongaigui, MD An Overview of Down Syndrome Regression Disorder and Therapeutics
     
1/9/26 Jannina Mock, BS Expanding the Care Team: Music Therapy as a Clinical Resource in NICU and Autism Care
1/16/26 Rachel Hodan, MS, CGC Etiologies of Mismatch Repair Deficient Tumors
1/23/26

Alexandria Chilimidos, MS

From RAS to Risk: RASopathies, Malignancy, and Precision Medicine Across the Lifespan
1/30/26 (ALWAY M114) Angelica Raney, BA Attention on ATXN10: The Human Cost of an Overlooked Repeat Expansion
2/6/26 Lacey Williams, BS Managing The Unexpected: When cfDNA Reveals More Than Fetal Risk
2/13/26 Greysha Rivera-Cruz, MD Reproductive Outcomes of individuals with pathogenic variants on hereditary gynecological cancer syndromes
2/20/26 Avery Phillips, BS Screening the World’s Newborns: Equity, Variation, and Genomics 
2/27/26 Mai Ly Tran Burke, BAS Integrating Medical Genetics into Resource-Limited Countries Around the World: Challenges and Strategies
3/6/26 Rodrigo Mendez, MD Spliceopathies in Rare Diseases
3/13/26 Ed Esplin, MD, PhD Genetics at the Heart of Cardiomyopathy
     
4/3/26 Chloe Rome, BS Communicating Hope and Uncertainty in Huntington Disease Treatment: Using uniQure as a Case Example
4/10/26 Jason Simmons, BS Down Syndrome, COVID-19, and Ableism in Healthcare: Lessons for Patient Advocacy​
4/17/26 Taylor Burg, BS  
4/24/26 Wangqiong Qiao  
5/1/26 Grace Foley  
5/8/26 Mariz Ebuen  
5/15/26 Deepali Shinde  
5/22/26 (ALWAY M114) Laura Keehan  
5/29/26 Lekha Chilakamarri