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Hoover, Jacqueline M., MS, CGC

Jacqueline M. Hoover, MS, CGC, is a genetic counselor in Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC's Division of Medical Genetics, which she joined in 2003. She currently acts as Supervisor of Clinical Genetics Services. She received a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Virginia in 1997. Two years later, she earned her master’s degree in genetic counseling from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York. She is certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling and is a member of the National Society of Genetic Counselors.

Before arriving at Children’s Hospital, she served as a pediatric, prenatal and cancer genetic counselor for four years at the Regional Medical Genetics Center in Hawthorne, New York, and had been a research project specialist at the Congenital Malformation Registry in Westchester County, New York, from 1998 to 2000. She has several scientific publications.

Jacqueline's special interest includes mitochondrial disease and coordinates a monthly mitochondrial clinic in which patients see a geneticist and neurologist in a single visit. She also provides the yearly mitochondrial lecture to the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. Another area of specialty includes cystic fibrosis counseling and screening as she acts as genetic counseling coordinator of the Cystic Fibrosis Center of Children's.

Last Update
April 5, 2010

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