SESSION 2 - May 6: Utility of Population Descriptors in Clinical Genetics

Question: What is the most important information, conceptually, for clinical genetics professionals to do their jobs well? Is the information always necessary; if not, when is it critical vs. extraneous? When is it potentially harmful?

Goal: Distill the most relevant information among population descriptors that serves a purpose in the clinical curation pipeline, or other clinical genetics work

Speakers:

SESSION 1 - April 29: Shedding Light on the Use of Population Descriptors in Clinical Genetics

Question: How is information about patient race, ethnicity, and ancestry on clinical laboratory requisition forms used in your work? In clinical genetics more broadly?

Goal: Understand context for race, ethnicity, and ancestry on clinical lab requisition forms

Speakers: 

Julia Gimbernat-Mayol, MEng

ADWG ELSIconversations Session 2 - May 6, 2022

Question: What is the most important information, conceptually, for clinical genetics professionals to do their jobs well? Is the information always necessary; if not, when is it critical vs. extraneous? When is it potentially harmful?

Alice Popejoy, PhD

ADWG ELSIconversations Session 1 - April 29, 2022

Question: How is information about patient race, ethnicity, and ancestry on clinical laboratory requisition forms used in your work? In clinical genetics more broadly?

Goal: Understand context for race, ethnicity, and ancestry on clinical lab requisition forms

Hannah Wand, MS, CGC

ADWG ELSIconversations Session 1 - April 29, 2022

Question: How is information about patient race, ethnicity, and ancestry on clinical laboratory requisition forms used in your work? In clinical genetics more broadly?

Goal: Understand context for race, ethnicity, and ancestry on clinical lab requisition forms