Genetic Counseling for Adult Neurogenetic Disease

Jill Goldman has been a neurogenetic counselor for 12 years at UCSF and Columbia University. She has first authored many papers including the 2011 “Genetic counseling and testing for Alzheimer disease: Joint practice guidelines of the American College of Medical Genetics and the National Society of Genetic Counselors” published in Genetics in Medicine. Jill is Chairperson of the Education Committee of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration. She has extensive experience in educating health professionals on neurogenetic diseases including teaching genetic counseling students, genetic counselors, genetics residents and fellows, nursing students, medical trainees, and the lay public. She has organized a NYC Frontotemporal Dementia Caregiver Conference and a Columbia University CME course for psychiatrists and neurologists on Alzheimer’s disease and Frontotemporal Degeneration. Jill was co-chair of a 2001 NSGC Annual Educational Conference workshop on neurogenetics and the 2004 Short Course on Neurogenetics. She has supervised both prospective and active genetic counseling students. Jill has also been a co-chair for the NSGC Neurogenetics SIG and a member of the Ethics Committee and Abstracts Committee. In addition to being Project Director, she will be responsible for sections on dementia and movement disorders.

Part 1:The Movement Disorders.- 1.Overview.- 2.Huntington Disease.- 3.Parkinson Disease.- 4.Dystonia.- 5.Ataxia.- Part 2:The Dementias.- 6.Overview.- 7.Alzheimer’s Disease.- 8.Frontotemporal Degeneration.- 9.Prion Diseases.- Part 3:Stroke.- 10.Overview of Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke Risk Factors.- 11.CADASIL.- Part 4:The Motor Neuron Diseases.- 12.Overview.- 13.Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.- 14.Spinal Bulbar Muscular Atrophy: Kennedy’s Disease.- 15.Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia.- Part 5:The Neuropathies and Channelopathies.- 16.Charcot Marie Tooth.- 17.Channelopathies.- 18.Overview.- 19.The Myopathies.- 20.The Muscular Dystrophies.- 21.The Myotonic Dystrophies.- Part 7:Neurocutaneous Syndromes.- 22.Overview.- 23.Neurofibromatosis.- 24.Tuberous sclerosis.- Part 8:The Clinical Evaluation.- 25.The Neurological Examination and Testing.- 26.The Neuropsychological Evaluation.