Grants, Awards and Honors
Katie Armstong's, Class of 2012, was awarded the JEMF Student Research Award for her research proposal Perceived Risk, Worry, and Satisfaction Related to Genetic Counseling of Childhood Cancer.
Katie Armstrong and Meron Azage, Class of 2012, have been named (LEND) Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities program trainees for 2011-2012
Lauren Grote, Class of 2012, won a $500 scholarship from the 2011 NSGC Membership Cultural Competency Committee
Leslie Gress, Class of 2012, wrote an article titled A Year of Growth: Transitioning to Graduate School that was published in Perspectives in Genetic Counseling, a quarterly NSGC newsletter, Summer 2011 edition
Kimberly Lewis , Class of 2012, was awarded a scholarship of $200 by the NSGC Student/New Member for outstanding Leadership and Initiative
Carrie Prochniak "Barriers to and Motivations for Physician Referral of Patients to Cancer Genetics Clinics" published in the Journal of Genetic Counseling 2011
Recipients of Graduate Student Governance Association Research Awards 2011
Katie Armstrong -Perceived Risk, Worry, and Satisfaction Related to Genetic Counseling of Childhood Cancer Survivors, $400
Meron Azage – “Fracture Rates in Adults with Neurofibromatosis Type 1” $500
Ashley Collier – Integration of Family Health History in Clinical Practice Guidelines for Breast, Ovarian, and Colorectal Cancer- $400
Justine Snyder – Tools and Strategies That A BRAC Positive Population Considers to be Useful in the Result Disclosure Process to Family Members-$500
Stephanie Skelton-"Quality of Life, Caregiver Burden and Parental Anticipation of Child Medical Needs: A Comparison of Birth and International Adoptive Parents of Children Born with Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate"-$400
Preparing Future Faculty Trainees for
2011-2012
* The PFF is a program involving coursework and classroom
experience that trains graduate students to be future
professors.
Kimberly Lewis Class of 2012
Brian Reys Class of 2013
Rebecca Tannenbaum Class of 2013
The following students
had abstracts accepted as posters at the NSGC 2011
Annual Education
Conference:
Kelly Berger
Alana Cecchi
Jessica Connor
Lauren Grote
Jacqueline Kara
Emily King
Jennifer Lemons
Heidi Malkuch
Jessica Pack
Kyla Patek
Liz Reilly