ELSIconversations: Shedding Light on the Use of Population Descriptors in Clinical Genetics

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: 

• Alice Popejoy, PhD: Shedding Light on the Use of Population Descriptors in Clinical Genetics
• Gillian Hooker, PhD, ScM, CGC: The Challenges of Standardization in a System with Complex Incentives
• Hannah Wand, MS, CGC: Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry (REA) in Clinical Genetics: Variability in Collection and Use

Moderator: Mildred Cho, PhD