ELSIhub Resources for Genetic Counselors

ELSIhub strives to provide our audiences with scholarship, educational content, webinars, community news, and resources focused on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genetics and genomics. Below is a compilation of resources that are of particular relevance to genetic counselors. Please reach out to [email protected] if you would like to share a resource that is not listed below!

ELSIhub Collections

ELSIhub Collections are essential reading lists on fundamental or emerging topics in ELSI, curated and explained by expert Collection Editors, often paired with ELSI trainees. This series assembles materials from cross-disciplinary literatures to enable quick access to key information. Listed below are collections that may be of interest to genetic counselors:

• Establishing Affirming Genetic Counseling Services for Transgender, Gender-Expansive, and Intersex Patients
• Expanded Carrier Screening (ECS): Clinical and Ethical Considerations for Genetic Counseling
• Abortion and the Genetic Counselor: The Impact of Restrictive Legislation on Genetic Counseling Practice
• Current Legal Challenges to Abortion: Implications for Prenatal Genetics
• Unequal Access to Genetic Testing and Follow-up Care
• Patient Perspectives on Uncertainty in Genomic Medicine
• Screening Embryos for Psychiatric Conditions: Public Perspectives, Ethical and Social Issues
• Neurobehavioral Genetic Testing in Children: How Much Should We Know?

The full set of collections are available on the ELSIhub Collections page under the resources section.

Videos

CERA records and archives our seminars and conferences on ELSIhub. Please find videos and related resources of particular interest to genetic counselors below.

Recordings from ELSIconversations and ELSI Friday Forum

• Affirming Sex and Gender Diversity in Genetics Practices, Policies, and Laws: A Call to Action
• The Genie Is Out of the Bottle for Polygenic Screening of Embryos: Where To From Here?
• Impact of SCOTUS's Dobbs Decision on Prenatal Genomics Research and Practice
• Autism Genomics Research: Parents’ Views on Genetic Results and Autistic Representation
• New ACMG Guidance on Carrier Screening: More or Less Equitable
• Current Legal Challenges to Abortion: Implications for Prenatal Genetics
• Exploring Difference in the Biology Classroom Series: How to Represent Wide-Ranging Family Structures and Personal Identities Using the Latest Pedigree Nomenclature.
• Population Descriptors in Clinical Genetics Series: Shedding Light on the Use of Population Descriptors in Clinical Genetics, Utility of Population Descriptors in Clinical Genetics, and Revisions to Demographic Representations on Clinical Lab Requisition Forms

More videos are available on the ELSIconversations and ELSI Friday Forum pages.

Recordings from the 5th and 6th ELSI Congresses

• From Person-Centered to Family-Centered: Navigating Practical and Ethical Issues in Health System-Led Contact for Cascade Screening
• Clinician Perspectives on Polygenic Risk Scores in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Current Concerns and Future Utility
• The Impact of Patient Race and Polygenic Risk Scores on Cancer Genetic Counselors’ Risk Assessment and Management in Breast Cancer Clinical Vignettes
• Innovating Equitable Communication Modalities for Patient Activation and Cascade Testing for Familial Hypercholesterolemia
• Patient and Family Preferences on Direct Contact by a Health System to Invite Cascade Screening
• Defining the Critical Components of Informed Consent for Genetic Testing
• Racial and Ethnic Classification in the Clinic: Is it Just?

Recordings from ELSI • GC Exchange (contributed by the The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine)

• Beyond the Score: Ethical & Social Considerations of Polygenic Embryo Screening (PES)
• The Rise of Population Genomic Screening and Associated Ethical, Legal and Social Issues
• Genetic Testing in the Era of New Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease

All event recordings can be accessed in the ELSIhub Video Archive.

ELSI Scholar Directory

Members of the ELSI Scholar Directory are scholars and trainees with an interest in research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics and genomics. You may contact members to organize collaborative projects or working groups, share speaking opportunities, solicit expert commentary, obtain advice on policy or legislation, network, and arrange mentor/mentee relationships. Search keywords such as "genetic counseling" or "polygenic scores" to find collaborators with similar research interests.

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