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
- Integration of Functional Genomics to Improve Variant Interpretation and Diagnosis
Workshops:
- Genomic Informatics on Clinical Service and Approaches to Evaluate the Unknown/Uncertain
Plenary Sessions:
- ACMG Presidential Plenary Session: Keeping Vulnerable People Safe during the Covid19 Pandemic
- Rodney Howell Symposium | Genetics in Medicine Presents: Spring 2021 COVID-19 State of the Science
- Laboratory Diagnostic Challenges (Constitutional and Neoplastic Cases in Molecular, Cytogenomic, and Biochemical Genetics Specialties)
- TED-Style Talks with Steve Cole and Janina Jeff
Scientific Sessions:
- Bringing the New Era of Mitochondrial Genomic Medicine to Geneticists
- 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
- Heritable Human Genome Editing in Clinical Practice: Scientific, Social, Ethical, and Legal Perspectives
- Adult and Cancer Diagnistic Challenges
- Gene-Based Medicines to Treat Metabolic Disorders: Progress and Perspectives
- Hot Topics: Pushing the Boundaries of Genome Sequencing
- Implementation of Whole Genome Sequencing as an Example of How to Bridge the Divide Between Research and Clinical Practice
- Prenatal Diagnostic Challenges
- 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
- Pediatric Tumor Predisposition Syndromes: Update on Clinical Phenotypes, Associated Tumors, and Clinical Approaches to Surveillance
- Genetic Health Disparities: From Biology to Healthcare Delivery Systems
- 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
Trainee/Postdoctoral Fellow/Resident and Student Workshops:
- Early Career Genetic Professionals Workshop - Early Career Job Hunt and Transition Success: What We Wish We had Known
- ACMG Meeting Student Workshop: Careers in Medical Genetics: An Informational Session for Students and Trainees
Platform Presentations:
- Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics
- Genetic Counseling
- Legal and Ethical Issues; Education
- Clinical Genetics and Therapeutics
- Public Health, Health Services and Implementation
- Prenatal Genetics
- Biochemical/Metabolic Genetics
- Laboratory Genetics and Genomics
- Featured Platforms
- Industry Platforms (2 sessions)
Online Exclusives:
- Plain People, Precision Medicine, and the Legacy of Victor McKusick
- Power in Numbers: The Benefits of Rare Disease Consortia in Inborn Errors of Metabolism
- Looking Beyond the Lamppost: Genome-First Approaches to Disease Prevalence, Penetrance, and Phenotype
- The Evolution of Autopsy in the Era of Sequencing
- Clinical, Legal, Ethical, and Economic Issues Surrounding Variant Reinterpretation
- Diversity in Clinical Genetics Practices Around the World