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Faculty
Bruce R. Haas, M.S., C.G.C., CLSp(CG) - Chairman and Assistant Professor
of Genetic Counseling (2006). B.A. Marquette University, 1980;
M.S., Sarah Lawrence College, 1993.
Diplomate, American Board of Genetic Counseling; NCA, Clinical
Laboratory Specialist: Cytogenetics. Research and Teaching Interests:
hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndromes, hemoglobinopathies,
hemophilias and thrombophilias, cytogenetics, Bayesian, trinucleotide
repeat disorders.
Noelle R. Agan, M.S., C.G.C. - Instructor.
B.A., Miami University (OH), 1994: M.S., University of Texas Health
Science Center, 1997; Diplomate, American Board of Genetic Counseling.
Research and Teaching Interests: ethics, psychosocial issues,
clinical supervision, telemedicine, distance learning.
Shannon N. Barringer,
M.S., C.G.C. - Instructor.
B.A., University of Virginia, 1994: M.S., Indiana University, 1997;
Diplomate, American Board of Genetic Counseling.
Research and Teaching Interests:
psychosocial issues, clinical supervision, genetic education/counseling
methodology, perinatal bereavement, congenital abdominal wall defects.
W. Blaine Bendure, M.S.,
C.G.C - Instructor
M.S., Human Genetics, Sarah Lawrence College; B.S., Genetics, University
of Missouri - Kansas City; Diplomate, American Board of Genetic Counseling;
Genetic Counselor---UAMS, Dept. of Family Practice/Oncology.
Research and Teaching Interests:
multidisciplinary genetic education, hereditary cancer syndromes.
Becky B. Butler, M.S.S.W.,
L.C.S.W. - Instructor, and Director of MAGEC
M.S.S.W., Social Work, University of Texas, Arlington; B.A., Sociology,
Baylor University; Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Arkansas,
1983.
Research and Teaching Interests:
innovative educational and clinical delivery models for genetics,
telemedicine development, genetic program development, ethical and
psychosocial implications of genetic testing, prenatal diagnosis.
Debra L. Collins, M.S., C.G.C. - Adjunct
Assistant Professor (KUMC)
M.S., Human Genetics, Sarah Lawrence College; B.A., Computer Science,
University of Texas, Austin; Diplomate, American Board of Medical
Genetics, 1982; Diplomate, American Board of Genetic Counseling, 1994.
Research and Teaching Interests:
innovative approaches to human genetic education for teachers and the
general public, support group formation and organization, Web page
development, Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome.
Elizabeth A. Conover, M.S., C.G.C - Adjunct
Assistant Professor (UNMC)
M.S., Medical Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.S.N.,
University of Nebraska, Omaha; B.S., Biology, Michigan State University;
B.S.N., Case Western Reserve University; Diplomate, American Board of
Medical Genetics, 1987; Diplomate, American Board of Genetic Counseling.
Research and Teaching Interests:
teratology, preconceptional health education.
Susan Hassed, M.S., C.G.C. - Adjunct
Assistant Professor (OUHSC)
M.S., Biophysics and Genetics, University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center; B.A., Biology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs;
Diplomate, American Board of Medical Genetics, 1990; Diplomate, American
Board of Genetic Counseling, 1993.
Research and Teaching Interests:
Director of M.S. program in Genetic Counseling at OUHSC, cytogenetics,
renal agenesis, Turner syndrome.
Sarah A. Jackson,
M.S., C.G.C. - Instructor
M.S., Human Genetics, Sarah Lawrence College; B.S., Microbiology,
Mississippi University for Women; Genetic Counselor/Services
Coordinator--Central Arkansas Veterans Administration Health System,
Little Rock; Diplomate, American Board of Genetic Counseling.
Research and Teaching Interests:
psychiatric genetics, adult-onset genetic diseases.
Stephen G. Kahler, M.D. - Professor
M.D., Duke; A.B., Biology, Princeton University; Diplomate,
American Board of Pediatrics, 1979; American Board of Medical
Genetics, 1982. Fellowship-UNC-Chapel Hill (Medical Genetics).
Medical Geneticist, UAMS/Department of Pediatrics and Arkansas
Children’s Hospital.
Research and Teaching Interests: inborn errors of metabolism,
newborn screening, autism, metabolic basis of malformations,
pediatric malformation syndromes.
Lenna Levitch, M.S., C.G.C -
Assistant Professor (Kansas)
M.S., Human Genetics, Sarah Lawrence College; B.A., Human Genetics,
University of Kansas; Diplomate, American Board of Medical Genetics,
1990; Diplomate, American Board of Genetic Counseling, 1993.
Research and Teaching Interests:
medical and community education on hereditary cancer syndromes, ethical
and difficult dilemmas in prenatal diagnosis and genetic testing,
multicultural issues in genetics.
Kent D. McKelvey, M.D. - Assistant
Professor
M.D., UAMS; B.S., Business Administration and Genetics, University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Fellowship-UNC-Chapel Hill, Medical
Genetics. Medical Geneticist, UAMS/Department of Family and Preventive
Medicine and Arkansas Cancer Research Center; Diplomate, American Board
of Medical Genetics.
Research and Teaching Interests:
Predictive Genetic Testing, Cancer Genetics, Adult Genetic disease,
Mitochondrial disease, ELSI of the Human Genome Project, genetic
education of students/healthcare providers.
John J. Mulvihill, M.D. – Adjunct
Professor (OUHSC)
M.D., University of Washington; B.M.S., Dartmouth Medical School; B.S.,
Biology, College of the Holy Cross; Diplomate, American Board of Medical
Genetics, 1982. Director, Program of Human Genetics, OUHSC.
Research and Teaching Interests:
genetics of human/familial cancer, epidemiology of childhood neoplasms
and birth defects, mutation epidemiology, national genetic organization
formation.
Shelly D. Nielsen, M.S., C.G.C., - Adjunct Instructor (UNMC)
M.S., Genetic Counseling, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center;
M.I.T, Secondary Biology and B.A., Biology, The University of Virginia;
Diplomate, American Board of Genetic Counseling, 2002.
Research and Teaching Interests:
Newborn screening evaluation and planning, substance abuse and treatment
in pregnancy, cytogenetics.
G. Bradley Schaefer, M.D. - Adjunct
Professor and Program Medical Director (UNMC)
M.D., University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; B.S., University of
Oklahoma; Fellowship-Pediatric/Clinical Genetics, Endocrinology and
Metabolism, OUHSC; Diplomate, American Board of Medical Genetics, 1993.
Research and Teaching Interests:
interdisciplinary genetic education, neurogenetics, genetics of autism,
hereditary hearing loss, congenital craniofacial defects.
R. Neil Schimke, MD - Adjunct
Professor (KUMC)
M.D., University of Kansas; B.A., University of Kansas; Fellowship-
Human/Clinical Genetics, the Johns Hopkins University; Diplomate,
American Board of Medical Genetics, 1982.
Research and Teaching Interests:
inherited conditions of endocrine and metabolic etiologies, such as
ambiguous genitalia, the multiple endocrine neoplasms, lysosomal storage
diseases, Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome.
Lori Williamson, M.S., C.G.C. - Adjunct
Assistant Professor (OUHSC)
M.S., Genetic Counseling University of Michigan; B.A., University of
Missouri-Columbia; Diplomate, American Board of Genetic Counseling.
Research and Teaching Interests: Use of complementary and
alternative medicine for genetic conditions, rural health, public
health, psychosocial issues, clinical supervision.
Kristin Baldwin, M.S., C.G.C – Instructor
M.S., Genetic Counseling, Medical College of Virginia; B.S., Genetics,
Texas A&M University; Prenatal Genetic Counselor,
Department of Ob/Gyn UAMS; Diplomate, American Board of Genetic
Counseling.
Research and Teaching Interests:
genetic causes of hearing loss, twin studies, genetic causes of
epilepsy, male infertility, SARA project at UAMS.
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