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HGANJ Meetings and Schedule

HGANJ holds three meetings per year in January, May and September usually on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at Saint Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ. An agenda for each meeting is e-mailed to members of HGANJ prior to each meeting and posted on the main page of this website generally within two weeks prior to the meeting date. A general timeline for these meetings is as follows:

9:00 am - Executive Committee meeting

10:00 am - Concurrent committee meetings (Education, Legislative, Website, Clinical Practice)

11:00 am - Networking

11:45 am - Lunch (provided)

12:45 pm - General membership meeting

1:30 pm - CEU Lecture

3:00 pm - Case presentation

4:00 pm - Adjournment

Continuing education units (CEU's) for genetic counselors are available for most meetings for a fee ($25 for members, additional $20 administrative fee for non-members). Please contact us with questions regarding CEU's.

The meetings are usually held in the Medical Office Building (MOB) conference rooms 4 & 5 (located in the main lobby across from the gift shop and behind the information desk). Driving directions to SPUH.

Meeting Schedule / Presenters

Date	Speaker	Topic	Clinical Case Presentation
September 9, 2013
May 28, 2013	Marni Falk, MD	The Evolving Diagnostic Approach to Suspected Mitochondrial Diseases	Sue Schmerler, MS, CGC St. Joseph's Univ. Hospital
January 8, 2013	Wendy Chung, MD, PhD	Whole Genome Sequencing	UMDNJ-Newark
September 11, 2012	Melissa Savage, MS, CGC	The Microarray Study: From Results to Interpretation	Michele Horner, MS, CGC Rachel Klein, MS, CGC Susan S. Brooks, MD
May 1, 2012	Ian Marshall, MD	Newborn Screening for CAH: Why, What and When?	Cooper University Hospital - Pediatrics/Adult
January 10, 2012	Erica Davis, PhD	The Genetic Architecture of Ciliopathies	UMDNJ-RWJMS
September 13, 2011	Joaquin Santolaya, MD, PhD	Cell-based therapy for severe genetic diseases during the pre-immune stages of antenatal development: a feasibility study	Counsyl, Inc. (Gabriel Lazarin, MS, CGC)
May 10, 2011	Full-Day Educational Conference @ NJ Hospital Association in Princeton, NJ	*Emerging Technologies in Genetics and Implications for Clinical Practice*	N/A
January 11, 2011	Suzanne Karabin, MS, CGC	Baby Steps: Newborn Screening Past, Present and Future	UMDNJ-RWJMS
September 14, 2010	Kimberly Ranieri DeLeonardis, MS, CGC	Genetic Counseling for Adult Onset Hereditary Cancer Syndromes	Cancer Institute of New Jersey
May 4, 2010	Jana Pruski-Clark, MPH, MS, CGC	Cancer and Pregnancy	UMDNJ-RWJMS
January 12, 2010	Elyce Cardonick, MD	Fertility & Pregnancy for New Cancer Patients and Survivors	St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center
September 8, 2009	Erynn Gordon, MS, CGC	Emerging Issues in Personalized Medicine: The Coriell Personalized Medicine Experience	Cooper University Hospital / Cancer Genetics
May 12, 2009	Gokce A. Toruner, MD, PhD	Diagnostic Genetics Testing for Autism Spectrum Disorders	UMDNJ-Newark
January 13, 2009	Shelly Gunn, MD, PhD	Genome Scanning by Array CGH as a Clinical Tool in Human Genetics	Morristown Memorial Hospital / Atlantic MFM
September 9, 2008	Courtney Sill, PhD	Coriell Institute - From Cell Repositories to Personalized Medicine	UMDNJ-RWJMS
May 13, 2008	Full-Day Educational Conference @ NJ Hospital Association in Princeton, NJ	*Genetics in Primary Care Medicine*	N/A
January 8, 2008	Mark Lyles, MD	The Science Behind Pharmacological Chaperones	UMDNJ-Newark

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