Kara Semotiuk
Genetic Counsellor
Kara Semotiuk, MS, (C)CGC, received a Master of Science degree in
Genetic Counselling from Sarah Lawrence College in 2000 and prior to
that an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in genetics from the
University of Western Ontario in 1998. In 2000 she joined the prenatal
genetics department at The Brooklyn Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY as a
clinical genetic counsellor. In 2003 Kara joined the Familial
Gastrointestinal Cancer Registry (FGICR) at Mount Sinai Hospital where
she continues to work as a clinical genetic counsellor working with
families that have hereditary gastrointestinal cancer and polyposis.
Additionally, she is involved with a number of research studies related
to hereditary colorectal cancer, polyposis and pancreas cancer. Kara
has an appointment at the University of Toronto where she is involved
with the genetic counselling program as a clinical supervisor for the
Master’s students and in reviewing new applications for the program.
In
2002 she was certified in Genetic Counselling by both the American
Board of Genetic Counseling and the Canadian Association of Genetic
Counsellors.
Centre
Mount Sinai Hospital
Zane Cohen Centre for Digestive Diseases
Familial Gastrointestinal Cancer Registry (FGICR)
Contact
E-mail: Kara.Semotiuk@sinaihealth.ca