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Faculty
Lori Williamson Dean, M.S., C.G.C., L.G.C. - Interim Chairman and
Assistant Professor
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.
Noelle R. Danylchuk, M.S., C.G.C. - Assistant Director. 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.
Becky B. Butler, M.S.S.W., L.C.S.W.
- Assistant Professor. M.S.S.W., Social Work, University of
Texas, Arlington, 1972; B.A., Sociology, Baylor University, 1970;
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.
Elizabeth A. Conover, M.S., C.G.C -
Adjunct Assistant Professor
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.
Bruce R. Haas, M.S., C.G.C., CG(ASCP)CM - Assistant Professor
of Genetic Counseling (2006). B.A. Marquette University, 1980;
M.S., Sarah Lawrence College, 1993.
Diplomate, American Board of Genetic Counseling; ASCP, Clinical
Laboratory Specialist: Cytogenetics. Research and Teaching
Interests:
hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndromes, hemoglobinopathies,
hemophilias and thrombophilias, cytogenetics, Bayesian, trinucleotide
repeat disorders.
Stephen G. Kahler, M.D. - Professor
M.D., Duke, 1973; A.B., Biology, Princeton University, 1969; 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.
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.
G. Bradley Schaefer, M.D. -
Professor and Program Medical Director
M.D., University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 1982; B.S.,
University of Oklahoma, 1978; 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.
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