Challenges in Implementing Changes in the Collection of Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry Data in Test Requisition Forms

Laura Duque-Lasio, MD

Date: May 20, 2022

Question: If changes to these forms were to be recommended, what are the considerations that need to be made to implement these changes? Barriers/opportunities?

Goal: Identify the considerations necessary to change these clinical forms

How Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry Information is Used in Genetic Diagnostics: One Lab's Perspective

Dee McKnight, PhD

​​​​​​​Date: 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?

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