Kirsten Boggs

🎉 Join us this Genetic Counsellor Awareness Day for the GCR Connect End of Year Showcase!

Hosted by ASGC & GCR Connect, this event is dedicated to highlighting the incredible research being led by GCs.

📅 Thursday, 13 November 2025
🕑 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM AEDT
📍 Online (registration required)

🚨 Reminder: Abstracts due soon! 🚨
Submit by 5pm Fri 10 Oct for the chance to present at the GCR Connect End of Year Showcase 🎤 (Thurs 13 Nov).

Top abstract wins $100 prize 🏆
📩 Send your abstract (≤250 words) to Kirsten Boggs

For more information see the ASGC newsletter

Title: Genetic counsellors: facilitating the integration of genomics into healthcare

Read our new perspective piece published in @mja.com.au. We explore the role of GCs in genomic medicine and current professional challenges. What started as passionate conference discussions has turned into a great perspective piece!

To read the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/...

📣And out now in Genetics in Medicine:

How do we best support choices when offering #genomic screening? @ausgenomics.bsky.social

Check out our 2-step model👇
doi.org/10.1016/j.gi...

Terrific collab @yvonnebombard.bsky.social & GeneticsAdviser! 🇨🇦🇦🇺 @genetic-fi.bsky.social @stephaniebest.bsky.social

Genomics Education Network Australasia (GENA): December 2024 Join the Genomics Education Network Australasia (GENA) meet-up and hear about genomics education projects underway in Australasia.

Interested in or practicing #genomics #education? There's still time to join the next Genomics Education Network Australasia (GENA) meet-up this Friday 6 December at 12pm (AEDT).

More info and registration page below ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com.au/e/genomics-e...

#GENA @bronwynterrill.bsky.social

There’s still time to register for the GCR Connect End of Year Showcase happening tomorrow!

Assessing the unmet needs of genomic testing in Australia: a geospatial exploration - European Journal of Human Genetics European Journal of Human Genetics - Assessing the unmet needs of genomic testing in Australia: a geospatial exploration

Thrilled to announce that #research conducted with @stephaniebest.bsky.social, @ausgenomics.bsky.social and other amazing colleagues is now published!

We explored the geographic distribution of rare disease #genomic testing across Australia 🧬. Take a peak!

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

WHO releases new principles for ethical human genomic data collection and sharing The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a set of principles for the ethical collection, access, use and sharing of human genomic data. Created with guidance from the WHO Technical Advisory Grou...

📣 Today the World Health Organization's #Genomics Program launched its new principles for the ethical human genome data collection, access, use and sharing. 🌎🧬

Read more & access the full document here 👉 www.who.int/news/item/20...

#WHO#globalhealth #data #equity
#collaboration #research

Would love to be added into this group please! 💜

An honour to be part of such transformative research, and making a real difference to people’s lives. Mackenzie’s Mission key outcomes paper published today in NEJM

Link 👉 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Interested in hearing more about what Genetic Counsellors get up to in research? Join us for the GCR Connect End of Year Showcase on Wednesday 4th December and hear from 4 amazing GCs! @ausgenomics.bsky.social

Link to register 👉 mcri.zoom.us/webinar/regi...