This week, we held our last Medical Outreach Meeting meeting of 2024! In this meeting, participants shared their incredible progress and successes in 2024, and Dr. Stephanie Meredith led a discussion on meeting topics for 2025. Participants who shared their Read more…
This month’s Medical Outreach Meeting presenter is Nicole Terry! Nicole is an experienced marketing professional with over a decade of diverse experience working in Corporate America. Nicole is also a parent of a child with Down syndrome, which led her Read more…
In this Medical Outreach Meeting, Brian Skotko, MD, MPP, answers questions and provides insight into Down syndrome care. Brian Skotko’s experience includes: DSC2U (Down Syndrome Clinic to You) is a resource for caregivers and medical providers of individuals with Down Read more…
One of our genetic counseling student colleagues at Wayne State University, Maryam Ijaz, and her program director, Angela Trepanier, performed an analysis of the data we collected from patients about their genetic counseling experiences, as a subset of the data Read more…
Storytelling session at the Genetic Support Foundation event in 2018 discussing the top 5 things Stephanie Meredith wishes doctors or genetic counselors would have told her when her son, Andy, was diagnosed with Down syndrome back in the year 2000.
Learn how you can build relationships with medical providers, engage in medical outreach, and meet more new and expectant parents by collaborating with Early Intervention specialists and programs. Featuring Roxane Romanick, LCSW whose experience includes: Experience includes direct parent support, Read more…
Be included in cultural competency efforts with medical systems, schools, and Departments of Public Health: How do these entities describe Down syndrome—if at all? Are people with disabilities being included in educational efforts? What are the values of the organizations/entities? Read more…
Watch the video from our most recent medical outreach call about the results from our community conversations with Black and Hispanic parents of children with Down syndrome and their specific suggestions for how advocacy organizations can better meet their needs. Read more…
Our team at UK just published a study on the experiences of patients learning about a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome and the information provided to them when receiving prenatal screening results. We also examined how implicit and explicit bias impacted Read more…
