Mentees
Formally Mentored Harvard Students
Allison Smith Newsome
MBE Student, HMS Center for Bioethics
Career stage: Master’s student
Mentoring role: Capstone mentor
2023-
Ellen Kim DeLuca, PhD, MPH
Health Services Research Fellow, Department of Population Medicine
Career stage: Postdoctoral fellow
Mentoring role: Research Mentor
2024-
Tessa Youngner
MBE Student, HMS Center for Bioethics
Career stage: Master’s student
2023-2024
Other Mentored Trainees and Faculty
Olivia Dobbie
Genetic Counseling Student
Career stage: Student, Master of Science in Genetic Counseling, Johns Hopkins-NIH program
Mentoring Role: Thesis committee member for student research on family wellbeing in the context of genetic conditions
2023-
Julie Wiedower Kaylor
PhD Student
Career stage: PhD student in Healthcare Genetics and Genomics at Clemson University
Mentoring Role: Dissertation committee member for research on value of genomic testing: benefits, harms, and costs
2022-
Nicole Elizabeth Kelley
Genetic Counseling Student
Career stage: Student, Master of Science in Genetic Counseling, BCM School of Health Professions
Mentoring Role: Thesis committee member for student research on tolerance of uncertainty between genetics and non-genetics providers in a results disclosure setting
2022-2023
Julie Stefka, MS
Genetic Counselor, Ambry Genetics
Career stage: Master of Science in Genetic Counseling, BCM School of Health Professions
Mentoring Role: Thesis committee chair on project using administrative data to assess cascade testing following exome sequencing at two commercial clinical laboratories.
Accomplishments: Manuscript published in Genetics in Medicine.
2021-2022
Sowmya Yennam, MD, MBA
Internal Medicine Resident, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Career stage: Student, BCM School of Medicine, Health Policy and Ethics Pathways
Mentoring Role: Health Policy Pathway capstone research co-mentor on research regarding cost conversations in ophthalmology
2020-2022
Brittan Elliott
Medical School Student, Baylor College of Medicine
Career stage: Student, BCM School of Medicine, Health Policy Pathway
Mentoring Role: Health Policy Pathway capstone research project co-mentor.
Accomplishments: Student capstone project regarding policy considerations of newborn genomic screening versus standard newborn screening published in Frontiers in Genomics
2020-2022
Adasia Ritenour, MS, CGC
Genetic Counselor, GeneMatters (acquired by Genome Medical)
Career stage: Student, Master of Science in Genetic Counseling, BCM School of Health Professions
Mentoring Role: Thesis committee member on student thesis entitled “Parental experiences and satisfaction throughout the genetic diagnostic experience: Exploring the impact of clinical setting in the context of COVID-19.”
Accomplishments: Student presented poster at the National Society of Genetic Counselors annual meeting and submitted manuscript for publication.
2019-2021
Hannah Helber, MS, CGC
Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine
Career stage: Student, Master of Science in Genetic Counseling, BCM School of Health Professions
Mentoring role: Thesis committee member on student thesis entitled “Assessment of Understanding and Satisfaction of Exome Sequencing: Video vs Telephone Consent.”
Accomplishments: Student submitted manuscript for publication.
2018-2020