Amelia Craver Special Lecture
Thanks to the leadership and generosity of Amelia Craver, Genetic Counseling Class of 1988, the USC Genetic Counseling Program launched a special Challenge Grant Campaign in 2013. Amelia contributed $25,000 to match dollar-for-dollar donations received from alumni and friends of the Genetic Counseling Program and donations from local, statewide and national organizations. The 2013 Challenge Grant stimulated over $75,000 in contributions and created the official Genetic Counseling Endowment.
As a tribute to her vision for the future, the program has created the Amelia Craver Special Lecture in Genetic Counseling. Each year, our students, faculty and friends of the program will benefit from a special speaker to broaden our perspectives on genetic counseling.
Anthony Gregg, MD, MBA, FACOG, FACMG
Dr. Anthony Gregg is board certified in both maternal fetal medicine and medical genetics and genomics, uniquely qualifying him to care for high-risk pregnancies due to maternal or fetal complications. Dr. Gregg has served in leadership positions within maternal fetal medicine across several university medical centers, currently serving as the Chair of the Department of OBGYN and the Chief of MFM at Baylor University Medical Center. Prior appointments include the University of Florida College of Medicine, the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and Baylor College of Medicine at Houston.
Dr. Gregg’s principal research interests relate to high-risk obstetrics. He participated as an investigator on numerous clinical trials and was supported by the NIH to evaluate a mouse model of hypertension in pregnancy during his time as an associate professor with the University of South Carolina from 2004–2011. He has also served as a reviewer on multiple special emphasis panels for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), including five years as chair of the advisory board for the institute’s Genomics and Proteomics Network for Preterm Birth Research. Prior to Dr. Gregg’s presidency, he served on several committees of the ACMG Board of Directors and ACMG Foundation Board, participated on several practice guideline work groups and served as liaison between ACMG and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a post he has held since 2013. In 2017, Dr. Gregg was invited before Congress to give expert briefing on advances in prenatal genetic screening on behalf of ACMG. His earlier involvement with ACMG includes serving on the Board of Directors from 2009–2015, as Clinical Vice President from 2013–2015 and as a member of the Practice Guidelines Committee from 2013–2015.
2017
Genetic or Genomic Counseling? The Opportunities and Challenges of Empowering Patients
in the Era of Genome Sequencing
Yvonne Bombard, PhD, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital
2016
The Yin and Yang of Cancer Genetics
1) Pediatric Cancer Predisposition in the Genomics Era
2) Biallelic Mismatch Repair Deficiency Syndrome: Exploiting Hypermutations to Save
Lives
Uri Tabori, MD, University of Toronto Hospital for Sick Children
2015
Cell Free DNA Technology in Real Time Tumor Genomics
Rebecca J. Nagy, MS, CGC, Guardant Health
2014
A Transnational Perspective: From Carrier Screening to PGD in Israel
Michal Sagi, PhD, Haddasah University Medical Center Jerusalem
