About this series – Telehealth for Genetics Residents and Fellows. A monthly teaching session brought to you by the members of the RCPSC Specialty Committee in Medical Genetics.
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2024-2025 TeleGraf from 11:00am – 12:00pm ET, scheduled dates are:
Friday, October 18, 2024
Title: 2SLGBTQI Issues in Medical Genetics Practice
We will provide a talk on the provision of equitable health care to individuals within the 2SLGBTQI community with an emphasis on medical genetics. We will define the 2SLGBTQI acronym, examine challenges and barriers faced by 2SLGBTQI individuals in the community and in health care settings, demonstrate correct pedigree nomenclature for gender diverse individuals, and explore case examples specific to the practice of medical genetics.
Speakers:
D’Arcy Prendergast
D’Arcy Prendergast is a medical genetics and genomics trainee at the University of Toronto currently completing additional subspecialization in prenatal genetics and the care of patients with variations of sexual characteristics. He has given variations of this talk on 2SLGBTQI care with genetic counseling colleagues Ronni Teitelbaum and Carleigh Robertson since 2021 to a variety of MD and GC audiences and is pleased to be able to present this to the TeleGraf audience.
Dr. Prendergast graduated from the Schulich School of Medicine’s Windsor Campus in 2019 and has since been a resident physician in the Medical Genetics and Genomics Residency program at the University of Toronto. His academic interests include the role of geneticists in the care of gender-diverse patients, the intersection of palliative care and clinical genetics, and in broader equity and inclusion efforts within the field of genetics.
Dr. Carleigh Robertson
Carleigh Robertson is a genetic counsellor at the Fred A. Litwin Family Centre in Genetic Medicine at University Health Network, and an instructor in the MSc Genetic Counselling program within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She graduated in 2014 from the University of Guelph with a BSc in Molecular Biology and Psychology, then completed her Master’s of Science in Genetic Counselling at McGill University in 2016. Before relocating to Toronto in 2018, she provided general genetic counselling services at Health Sciences North in Sudbury, Ontario and participated in teaching and clinical supervision for trainees at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. Her research has explored the experiences of transgender individuals in genetic counselling settings and strategies for enhancing medical genetics care for the 2SLGBTQI community. She is certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling (ABGC).
Dr. Ronni Teitelbaum
Ronni Teitelbaum, MSc, CGC, CCGC received a Master of Science degree in Genetic Counselling from the University of British Columbia in 2002. In 2002, she was certified in Genetic Counselling by the American Board of Genetic Counseling (ABGC) and the Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors (CAGC). She is a member of both the ABGC and the CAGC. She is a lecturer and provides clinical supervision to students in the Master of Science degree in Genetic Counselling at the University of Toronto. Ronni has over 20 years of genetic counselling experience in the public healthcare sector in Ontario. She is currently employed as a Genetic Counsellor at Medcan.
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