Penelope Roberts, Ms, Cgc Email & Phone Number

Remote team member providing phone-based pre- and post-test education for hereditary cancer testing, carrier screening, and non-invasive prenatal screening.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Educated and supported healthcare providers in primary identification and management of patients with hereditary cancer syndromes as well as in prenatal genetic screening. Provided presentations on topics, including hereditary cancer genetic testing, prenatal carrier screening, and aneuploidy screening. Additionally, coached and educated sales team and was point of contact for any and all questions, including providing assistance in planning meetings with clients and potential clients. • Served on three-person group effort to create marketing and educational campaign materials demonstrating new advancement in noninvasive pregnancy screening technology for a national audience.• Team effort on updating carrier screen results templates, utilizing feedback from clients and providers, including redesigning the layout.• Successfully completed and met all training objectives remotely, and with flexibility, as working environment changed due to COVID-19, and received a bonus as a result for performing very well.

Boston, Ma

Acted as liaison between department and specialty laboratories, while creating and updating protocols and guidelines for genetic counselors, in addition to conducting and maintaining educational training sessions for obstetrical staff. Created schedules, wrote department protocols, trained staff, and served on hospital committees, and mentored other GCs and students. • Led, supervised and supported genetic counseling staff at three locations (main campus and two satellite locations), in addition to performing yearly evaluations for the team.• Streamlined process by consolidating how pedigrees obtained and results returned to patients.• Changed department's return of negative results to allow genetic counselors to spend more of individual time on pressing matters, including patients with abnormal findings.• Counseled 1,000-plus women per year, meeting the goals set by the hospital standards.• Served as a committee member on the Dept. of Health Birth Defects Registry, and the Genetic Consent Committee.• Performed clinical genetic counseling duties as described below. --Saw patients and family members for pretest aneuploidy genetic counseling, including reviewing all options (nothing, screening, and diagnostic testing). --Reviewed all my patients results and returned results to patients over phone or through electronic patient portal. --Counseled and advised pregnant patients regarding congenital birth defects, high risk for various syndrome or those diagnosed with syndrome, or patients following miscarriages to review chromosome results from loss. --Obtained three generation pedigrees and analyzed each for genetic disease and provided risk assessments to patient.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Conveyed genetic, medical, and technical information, testing options, and results to clients, including identifying resources for patients, while providing psychosocial assessment and support for individuals and families facing challenges related to family dynamics, anxiety, termination decisions, and other related areas.• Triaged, managed, and counseled patients regarding referrals for ultrasound anomalies, increased risk for aneuploidy, screening and diagnostic testing options, carrier screening results, family history-related risk, teratogens, consanguinity, IVF, and recurrent loss• Completed risk assessment analyses based on family histories, empiric risks, and various risk models.• Organized and coordinated all aspects of genetic testing, including use of consents and testing requisitions, verifying insurance coverage, and tracking samples.• Worked with physicians in and out of hospital to ensure best medical care.• Supervised genetic counseling students, utilizing feedback model.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Facilitated and provided genetic counseling services. Coordinated patient visits and various clinicians’ schedules. Authored questionnaire for parents, caretakers, and patients to illicit medical history and patients’ areas of concern.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Provided genetic counseling services. Coordinated patient visits and clinicians’ schedules. Drafted questionnaire for parents, caretakers, and patients to illicit medical history and patients’ areas of concern.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Acted as primary interface between research group and IRB. Prepared study materials by either writing or editing protocols, consent forms, invitational letters, and all necessary IRB forms). Assisted in development of data and collection tools. Served as primary contact for individuals interested in study participation, including explaining study, participation, and consent process, answering inquiries by phone or email, and managing consent for enrollees. Gathered pedigree information to determine if family or disease demonstrated genetic involvement. Reviewed clinical information on patients enrolled in research studies and managed research database. Assisted in writing research grants.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Provided genetic counseling services. Served as consultant to WGBH for MGH’s informational website for tuberous sclerosis patients and families.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Oversaw lab maintenance and acted as primary contact for all laboratory supply orders. Managed diagnostic screening of TSC patients from clinics in US and abroad. Supervised and coordinated relocating part of hematology division’s research laboratory. Taught single-day seminars on mutational analysis at Harvard Medical School for first-year medical students. Served as radiation safety officer, hazardous waste officer, and laboratory safety officer. Trained all new laboratory technician personnel.

Ms, Genetic Counseling

Activities and Societies: Teaching Assistant, Graduate level molecular biology class (Fall 2004) Independent research project: Assessing.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Biology, General

Academic Awards: • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Award for Summer Research, 1998 • Harriet R. Foote Memorial Prize for Botanic Studies.