The Importance of Genetic Screening: A Webinar

Ali Rogin is a producer with the PBS NewsHour foreign affairs team who previously worked for both ABC News and NBC News. She is also author of Beat Breast Cancer Like A Boss: 30 Powerful Stories. During Ali’s senior year at New York University, she discovered she had the BRCA1 genetic mutation and decided to have prophylactic surgery before her graduation in 2009.

Emily Goldberg is a genetic counselor for the JScreen program. She received her bachelors’ degrees in biology and psychology from Brandeis University and a master’s degree from the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics at Sarah Lawrence College. She has been certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling since 2011. Before joining JScreen, she worked as a genetic counselor at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York, specializing in prenatal and cancer genetics. She serves as an Instructor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and adjunct faculty at Sarah Lawrence College.

Richard Zelkowitz, MD, is Regional Medical Director of the Breast Program for the Fairfield Region in the Hartford Hospital Healthcare network and member of the BCA Medical Advisory Board. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Zelkowitz was at Norwalk Hospital, where he joined the medical staff in 1989. While there, he served as chief of hematology/oncology and co-director of the breast cancer center, and founder director of the breast center.