Amanda Pichini, Jonathan Roberts and Emma Walters: How can Genetic Counsellors improve care through research?

Genetic Counsellors play an important part in healthcare and
research. This Genetic Counsellor Awareness Day we focus on the
role genetic counsellors have in research, to help improve care
for patients and families.


On this episode of the G Word, Amanda Pichini, Clinical Lead for
Genetic Counselling at Genomics England, is joined by Emma
Walters, member of the Participant Panel at Genomics England, and
Jonathan Roberts, NHS Genetic Counsellor and Clinical Content
Developer at Genomics England. Emma shares her personal story and
our guests delve into the impact of not having access to genetic
counselling. They explore how research priorities can be defined
by bringing together both the genetic counsellors and what
they're doing in their healthcare roles and the patients
themselves and their experiences together.


Johnathan will also be talking to genetic counsellors throughout
this episode from the recent World Congress on Genetic
Counselling.


You can download the transcript here.


"I think another way in which research can really push that
agenda forward is understanding who isn't accessing that
[genetic] counselling. So when people get through the door and
they experience genetic counselling, often that can be really
valuable and they can suddenly start to make sense of all this
testing, this family history. They can have a chance to talk
about how they feel about it."


 


With special thanks and acknowledgements to World Congress on
Genetic Counselling and Wellcome Connecting Science for their
contribution to this podcast including Genetic Counsellors,
Manisha Chauhan, Alison McEwen, Jared Warde-Jospeh, Nour
Chanouha, Jehannine Austin and Kennedy Borle.