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Hayward Genetics Center - Human Genetics Program
Faculty Member



Kelly Jackson

Certified Genetic Counselor
Instructor, Pediatrics/Medicine

 

 

EDUCATION:
August 1992-May 1994 Master of Science in Genetic Counseling, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Department of Human Genetics, Pittsburgh, PA; Thesis title"An Exon-2 Peripherin/RDS Mutation Causes Macular and Peripheral Retinal Degeneration
August 1986-May 1990 Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Psychology Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
January 1995 - present Genetic Counselor, Tulane University Medical School Human Genetics Program, Hayward Genetics Center. Responsibilities include clinic coordination for weekly clinic at Tulane and three satellite clinics; cancer genetic counseling for Tulane community; staff, community and allied health care provider education on cancer genetics and human genetics; clinical research; lysosomal storage disease registry local coordinator; lectures to medical students about genetic counseling and cancer genetics Instructor of Pediatrics and Clinical Medicine in Hematology/Oncology, November 1, 1996.
MEMBERSHIPS:
  American Society of Human Genetics, National Society of Genetic Counselors, current state representative for region III of NSGC; member, metabolic / lysosomal disease special interest group, member, cancer special interest group, Psi Chi, National Psychology Honor Society Alpha Phi Omega, National Co-ed Service Fraternity, Louisiana Breast Cancer Task Force.
CERTIFICATION:
  American Board of Genetic Counseling, 1996
AWARDS:
  Selected as a member of the New Orleans City Business Power Generation for 2003.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / ABSTRACTS:
  Andersson HC, Krousel-Wood MA, Jackson KE, Rice J, Lubin IM. Medical genetic test reporting in molecular cystic fibrosis and factor V Leiden tests based on reports solicited from North American laboratories. Genetics in Medicine 4 (5): 324-327, 2002.
  Krousel-Wood MA, Andersson HA, Rice J, Jackson KE, Rosner ER, Lubin IM. Physicians' perceived usefulness of and satisfaction with test reports for cystic fibrosis (delta F 508) and factor V Leiden. Genetics in Medicine 5 (3): 2002.
  Jackson KE, Krousel-Wood MA, Lubin IM, Andersson HC (2001). Medical Genetic Test Report . Platform presentation at the American College of Medical Genetics meeting, Miami, March, 2001.
  Jackson KE, Tsien F, Marble M (2000). Brief Clinical Report: Phenotypic Features in a Boy with Monosomy 18 Mosaicism. Am J Med Genet 95:229-232.
  Jackson KE, Prieto-Carrasquero M, Li S, Marble M (1999). Phenotypic features of a patient with mosaic trisomy 18 and 45,X; comparison with three previous cases. Poster presentation at the 1999 American Society of Human Genetics meeting and Platform presentation at the 1999 Southern Genetics Group meeting.
  Morava, E., Jackson KE, Marble, M., Andersson, HC, Shapira, E. (1997). Congenital Anophthalmia, an Overview of Eleven Patients. Poster presentation at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting, October, 1997.
  Jackson, KE, Tsien, F., Marble M. (1996). Near Normal Cognitive Development in a Patient with Non-Mosaic Robertsonian Trisomy 13 in Blood, Found to have Mosaicism for the Balanced/ Unbalanced Translocation in Skin Fibroblasts. Poster presentation at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting, October, 1996.
  Gorin MB, Jackson KE, Ferrell RE, Sheffield VC, Jacobson SG, Gass JDM, Mitchell EB, Stone EM (1995). A Peripherin/Retinal Degeneration Slow Mutation (Pro-210-Arg) Associated with Macular and Peripheral Retinal Degeneration. Ophthalmology, 102:246-255.
  Green RP, Cohn SM, Sacchettini JC, Jackson KE, Gordon JI (1992). The Mouse Intestinal Fatty Acid Binding Protein Gene: Nucleotide Sequence, Pattern of Developmental and Regional Expression, and Proposed Structure of Its Protein Product. DNA and Cell Biology 11(1): 31-41.