Facility San Francisco Medical Center Genetics Department Address 450 6th Ave 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94118 Map & Directions Telephone Appointments, cancellations, advice and messages: San Francisco: (415) 833-2998 Oakland: (510) 752-6298 Sacramento: (916) 614-4075 San Jose: (408) 972-3300 Fresno: (559) 324-5330 Modesto: (209) 735-3344 View your preventive services

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My Biography

Within this department, my colleagues maintain a terrific sense of camaraderie. The genetic counselors I work all take an avid interest in each other –- it often feels like a second family! We have many resources available for each other and our patients.

I enjoy spending quality time with my patients, helping them through difficult times, listening to them and assisting them with difficult decisions. At Kaiser Permanente, we coordinate patient care across departments seamlessly. Patients need not worry about arrangements for specialist referrals. In essence, we do all of the legwork for them.

My area of special interest includes teratology and fetal ultrasound abnormalities. Both of these areas combine knowledge of embryology and how certain defects may provide clues to its etiology. Helping patients understand these abnormalities is both challenging and rewarding.

I am a healthy eater by patronizing just about every farmer’s market in the city, and I keep active by walking everywhere. I participate in 5Ks, a couple of half-marathons and engage in regular yoga practice. My hobbies include dancing, cooking, writing poetry and fiction, making jewelry, and traveling. I recently ate my way through Italy and enjoyed the green of Switzerland.

Other Languages: Mandarin; some counseling in Spanish
Undergraduate Education: BS in Biology, University of California at Davis
Graduate Education: MS in Genetic Counseling, Northwestern University School of Medicine
Professional Affiliations: National Society of Genetic Counselors
Began Practice: 2000
Joined Kaiser Permanente: 2000

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