Past AHSPA Recipients
2023
Recipients
Lisa Karger, MS, CGC; Cindy Chin, BSc; Emily Soper, MS, CGC
Project Topic/Title
Gallery Walk: A culturally tailored novel educational tool for increasing awareness of genetic counseling, genetic testing and hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) susceptibility in the Black population
2022
Recipients
Priyanka Ahimaz, MS, CGC; Jessica L. Giordano, MS, CGC; Carli Andrews, MS, CGC
Project Topic/Title
Development of Patient-Driven Guidelines on collecting Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry Information during Pedigree Construction
2021
Recipient
Lauren Lichten, MS, CGC
Project Topic/Title
Best Practices Guide for Supervision of Telemedicine Clinical Rotations
Recipients
Annie Bao, MS, LMFT; Amanda Bergner, MS, LCGC; Gayun Chan-Smutko, MS, CGC; Janelle Villiers, MS, CGC
Project Topic/Title
Intra-Professional Antiracism Dialogue & Discourse Series (IPADDS)
2020
Recipients
Lila Aiyar, MSc, CGC, CCGC; Tala Berro, MS, CGC; Nadine N. Channaoui, MS, LCGC; Michelle Takemoto, MS, CGC
Project Topic/Title
Development of Outcome Evaluation Framework for Diversity-Related Projects in Genetic Counseling
2019
Recipients
Angela Krutish, MSc; Jessica Hartley, MS, CGC
Project Topic/Title
The Impact of the Genetic Assistant Position on Genetic Counselor Productivity: A Time-Series Analysis
User Instructions for ClinMix: A Genetics Staff Mix Planning Tool
ClinMix: A Genetics Staff Mix Planning Tool
2018
Recipients
Andrea Durst, MS, DrPH, LCGC; Kunal Sanghavi, MBBS, MS, LCGC; Rebecca Vanderwall, MS, MPH, LCGC; Raluca Kurz, MS, LCGC
Project Topic/Title
Genetic Counseling in the Genomic Era - A Fellowship Program to Promote Public Health and Precision Medicine Roles
2017
Recipients
Carrie Atzinger, MS, LGC; and Katie Wusik, LGC
Project Topic/Title
Supervision Models in Current Genetic Counseling Supervision Practice
2016
Recipient
Priscila Delgado Hodges
Project Topic/Title
"Development of Spanish Genetic Counseling Lexicon”
Lexigene® is a trilingual online lexicon tailored to the field of genetic counseling. It boasts over 3600 genetics-related terms that can be searched in English, Spanish and French.
2014
Recipients
Kara Anstett, BSc and Sharon Chen, BA
Project Topic/Title
"Development of a Website to Facilitate the Recruitment of African Americans and Latinos into the field of Genetic Counseling"
2014
Recipients
Beth Crawford, MS, CGC, Linda Robinson, MS, CGC, and Sara Pirzadeh-Miller, MS, CGC
Project Topic/Title
"Genetic Counseling Assistants: An Integral Piece of the Evolving Genetic Counseling ServiceDelivery Model”
2013
Recipients
Heather Zierhut, Stephanie Cohen; Submitted on behalf of the Genetic Counseling Outcomes Working Committee
Project Topic/Title
"Identification of Patient-Centered Outcome Measures in Genetic Counseling"
2012
Recipient
Heidi Cope
Project Topic/Title
"The psychological impact of pregnancy loss due to prenatally diagnosed lethal fetal conditions: Gender differences and predictors of poor outcome"
2011
Recipients
Sara Riordan and Shannon Kieran
Project Topic/Title
"Expanding the Practice of Genomic Counseling in Personalized Medicine: Tools for Genetic Counselors"
Personalized Medicine Resource: Genomic Counseling Visual Aid
2010
Recipient
Kathleen Valverde
Project Topic/Title
“Will Employers Hire Genetic Counselors with a Clinical Doctorate?”
2007
Recipient
Catherine Reiser
Project Topic/Title
Development of a Training Program for Clinical Supervisors of Genetic Counseling Students Using the Standardized Student Method
2005
Recipients
Robin Bennett and Joseph D. McInerney
Project Topic/Title
Development of a Power Point Slide Set on Family HistoryNSGC Regional RepresentativesThe Path to Leadership: Strategy to Enhance Student Experience and Member Participation in NSGC
2004
Recipients
Logan Karns, Myra Roche and Beverly Yashar
Project Topic/Title
Development of 2nd edition, Ethics in Genetic Counseling: an ethics casebook for genetic counselors
2003
Recipients
Sumedha Ghate, Cindy Hoyle Solomon, Anna Leininger, Nicole Teed, Jill Brensinger Trimbath
Project Topic/Title
Child's Guide to Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP)
2002
Recipients
Beth Billings, Sara Goldman and Vicki Venne
Project Topic/Title
Genetic Counselor Licensure: Experiences and Opportunities
2001
Recipient
Barbara Lerner
Project Topic/Title
Current Issues in Genetic Counseling: Interactive Internet Based Counseling
2000
Recipient
Robin Bennett
Project Topic/Title
Recommendations for Genetic Counseling and Screening of Consanguineous Couples and Their Offspring
1999
Recipient
Julia Habecker-Green
Project Topic/Title
Study of Attitudes toward Diagnosis in Pediatric Genetic Counseling. The study examined the psychosocial implications of genetic counseling on patient satisfaction with genetic services
1998
Recipient
Ellen Matloff
Project Topic/Title
The Impact of Cancer Genetic Counseling on Providers. The study explored the impact of cancer genetic counseling on the counselors who provide these services, specifically their attitudes, personal cancer surveillance behaviors and levels of stress.
1997
Recipients
Jennifer Fitzpatrick and Marlene Huggins
Project Topic/Title
Duty to Recontact: A Survey of the Attitudes of Genetics Service Providers, A project designed to lay the ground-work in preparation for clinical guidelines regarding duty to recontact patients when new developments in clinical genetics are identified.
1996
Recipient
Jamie Israel
Project Topic/Title
An Introduction to Deafness: A Manual for Genetic Counselors,a comprehensive manual developed to provide genetic counselors with information about various aspects of deafness. The manual was distributed to all graduate programs in genetic counseling and has become a publication distributed through NSGC.
1995
Recipient
Diane Baker
Project Topic/Title
The goal of this project was to define elements and develop guidelines for patient letter writing for genetic counseling students.
1994
Recipients
Kathy Delp and Molly Minnick
Project Topic/Title
The goal of this project was to develop a manual for conducting support groups for parents who have chosen to interrupt pregnancies secondary to fetal anomalies.
1994
Recipients
Kathy Delp and Molly Minnick
Project Topic/Title
The goal of this project was to develop a manual for conducting support groups for parents who have chosen to interrupt pregnancies secondary to fetal anomalies.
1993
Recipient
Vivian Wang
Project Topic/Title
She developed a training handbook about cross-cultural genetic counseling which has been field tested and incorporated in several genetic counseling training program curricula. The self-contained, easily updated handbook includes material about basic cross-cultural counseling theory as well as case vignettes, roleplaying and role analysis. Audiovisual slides and references accompany the handbook. These tools will help sensitize students to culturally distinct populations. The handbook has been made available to genetic counseling training programs free of charge.