Program Highlights
A program format designed to offer a variety of educational formats and several types of sessions during the meeting from Scientific Sessions and Workshops to TED-Style Talks, Case-based Sessions, Platform Presentations and Short Courses, the 2021 ACMG has something for everyone on the genetics healthcare team.
Short Courses: Tuesday, April 13, 12:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Registration is required and an additional fee applies.
- A Clinician’s Perspective on Obesity: Syndromic and Non-Syndromic Causes, Treatment and Challenges
- Functional Assays Towards Variant Interpretation and Diagnosis: A Survey of Approaches and Use Cases
Workshops, Seminars and Interactive Sessions:
- Pediatric Tumor Predisposition Syndromes: Update on Clinical Phenotypes, Associated Tumors, and Clinical Approaches to Surveillance
- Genomic Informatics on Clinical Service and Approaches to Evaluate the Unknown/Uncertain: An Interactive Workshop
- The Gene Pool: Sharing Our Best Ideas for the Genetics Workforce
- Sex Chromosome Trisomies - To Screen or Not to Screen? - That is the Question
- Artificial Intelligence and Genomics – Powerful Tools in Pre- and Postnatal Decision Making
- The Intersection Between Developmental Phenotypes and Perinatal Genomic Diagnoses
- Genetic Counselors Forum: In Utero Fetal Molecular Therapies: Present State and Future Applications
Plenary Sessions:
- ACMG Presidential Plenary Session: Keeping Vulnerable People Safe during the Covid19 Pandemic
- Gene-Based Medicines to Treat Metabolic Disorders: Progress and Perspectives
- Implementation of Whole Genome Sequencing as an Example of How to Bridge the Divide Between Research and Clinical Practice
- Heritable Human Genome Editing in Clinical Practice: Scientific, Social, Ethical, and Legal Perspectives
- TED-Style Talks with Steve Cole, Janina Jeff, and Yaniv Erlich
- Genetic Health Disparities: From Biology to Healthcare Delivery Systems
Scientific Sessions:
- Bringing the New Era of Mitochondrial Genomic Medicine to Geneticists
- Genetics in Medicine Presents: Spring 2021 COVID-19 State of the Science
- The Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes, Circa 2021: Clinical and Molecular Update
- Excellence in Medical Genetics and Genomics Through Diversity
- Unexpected Findings Across the Lifespan: Challenges of Reporting Incidental and Secondary Findings in Young Patients
- Clinical Pharmacogenomic Testing: Current Best Practices and Future Landscape
- RNA and Gene Therapy in the Clinic – From Discovery to Treatment Implementation
- Chromatinopathies: An Expanding Clinical Spectrum
- Telegenetics: Before, During and After COVID-19
- The Heart of the Matter- Congenital Cardiac Disease and Pregnancy
- A Primer on Regulatory and Compliance Agencies in Genetic Testing
- What's in a Panel? A Decade of Expanded Carrier Screening in Review
- ACMG 2021 Cardinal Signs
Trainee/Postdoctoral Fellow/Resident and Student Workshops and Activities:
• Early Career Genetic Professionals Workshop - Early Career Job Hunt and Transition Success: What We Wish We had Known