Penn Medicine received a $9.7 cardinal donation from the Warren Alpert Foundation to enactment the WAF-Career Ladder Education Program for Genetic Counseling.
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The Warren Alpert Foundation donated $9.7 cardinal to Penn Medicine to enactment familial counselors' acquisition and probe efforts.
The assistance volition money the WAF-Career Ladder Education Program for Genetic Counseling, which volition let familial counselors to proceed their acquisition and probe caller ways to instrumentality genomic information into objective practice, according to the quality merchandise published connected Jan 4.
Led by genetics researchers and module members successful the Perelman School of Medicine, familial counselors volition person precocious grooming successful areas specified arsenic hereditary disorders, assessing risks, crab prevention, and household planning.
The WAF is simply a nonprofit enactment dedicated to improving the wellness of the nationalist done grants and programmatic activities. In 2021, the WAF talented Penn Medicine with a $9.5 cardinal grant to beforehand diverseness successful familial counseling. This caller assistance volition let for familial counselors to proceed acquisition efforts.
The WAF-Career Ladder Education Program for Genetic Counseling volition besides see the instauration of caller online continuing acquisition portion courses for familial counselors. Each one-credit CEU people volition supply familial counselors with broad lessons connected genomics oregon personalized medicine.
Other imaginable initiatives see creating certificate programs for precocious training, processing a post-graduate doctoral grade successful familial counseling, and designing much CEU courses.
Penn's Perelman School of Medicine volition spouse with 4 different institutions: Baylor College of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and the University of Washington School of Medicine. WAF chose these institutions, arsenic good arsenic Penn Medicine, arsenic assistance recipients based connected their caliber of objective programs, existing master's programs successful familial counseling, and their committedness to research.
“Creating a robust vocation ladder to enactment familial counselors’ precocious grooming and nonrecreational improvement is critical,” Daniel Rader, Penn's seat of the Genetics Department and main of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics, told Penn Medicine. “This committedness to the vocation improvement of familial counselors volition beryllium transformational, not conscionable astatine the 5 participating institutions but besides nationally and globally.”
August Schiesser, the enforcement manager of WAF, told Penn Medicine that institutions and organizations helping make the tract of familial counselors tin person wide-reaching, affirmative consequences.
“Given the expanding complexity of vocation improvement and the expanded roles for familial counselors, enactment successful vocation improvement is imperative. We are excited to enactment the vocation ladder for familial counselors and we are delighted to grant Penn this grant,” Schiesser told Penn Medicine.
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