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About the Author
As a counselor, Dr. Sam Riedijik conducts clinically based psychological research to support psychological support in the rapidly advancing field of clinical genetics. Over the past five years her attention has focused on the broadening scope of prenatal genetic testing and its implications for patient informed decision-making and well-being. She has focused on the psychological aspects of the introduction of genome editing techniques in patient treatment of monogenic disorders such as Huntington's and Pompe disease. Dr. Riedijik also provides pre- and post-test counseling and decision-counseling to patients opting for presymptomatic testing for oncogenetic and neurogenetic diseases. In recent years, her main areas of patientcare have been decision-counselling and aftercare to patients who are confronted with fetal anomalies in their pregnancy. Dr. Karin Diderich has been working as a staff member for the Department of Clinical Genetics at Erasmus MC since 2011, with prenatal genetics as her main focus area in patient care as well as in research and education. Karin is closely involved in the expansion of the possibilities of diagnostics for structural abnormalities in pregnancies. Karin is a Lecturer in the medicine curriculum and the Minor Genetics in Society. Karin studied medicine at the Erasmus University. After her MD, she performed PhD research at the department of Genetics at Erasmus MC. Karin is a member of the national VKGN Quality Committee, the Working Group on Information and Education about Prenatal Screening of the RIVM, the VKGN Working Group on Prenatal Genetics, the Working Group on Prenatal Diagnostics and Therapy (WPDT) and the Working Group on Skeletal Dysplasia.
Book Information
ISBN 9780128233290
Author Sam Riedijk
Format Paperback
Page Count 226
Imprint Academic Press Inc
Publisher Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Weight(grams) 410g