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Cindy Powell, M.D., M.S. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Chief of the Division of Genetics and Metabolism in the Department of Pediatrics at UNC School of Medicine. She is also the Medical Director of the Cytogenetics Laboratory at UNC Hospitals and Director of the Medical Genetics Residency Program. Her clinical and research activities include genetic causes of hearing loss, Native American myopathy, constitutional chromosome abnormalities and newborn screening for genetic disorders.
Dr. Powell gave an overview of newborn screening. Click here to view her presentation.
Leslie Wolf, Ph.D., is Director of the North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health located in Raleigh, NC. The North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health is part of the Epidemiology Section, Division of Public Health, Department of Health and Human Services. In addition to providing newborn screening for babies born in North Carolina, the State Laboratory of Public Health provides screening, diagnostic, reference and emergency response testing for both clinical and environmental samples.
Dr. Wolf spoke about the challenges of expanded newborn screening. Click here to view her presentation.
Aaron Goldenberg, M.A, M.P.H. is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University and a Research Associate in the Center for Genetics Research, Ethics and Law. His work focuses on the ethical and social issues surrounding advances in public health genomics, newborn screening, genetics and health disparities, and the intersection between bioethics and public health ethics. Aaron's dissertation focuses on the ethical issues surrounding the use of residual newborn screening bloodspots for research purposes.
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