Heather Kamen is a board-certified and multi-state licensed genetic counselor, practicing for over 20 years. She has expertise in cancer, prenatal, and reproductive genetics. Heather obtained her BA in Biology from Brandies University in the Boston area and her MS in Human Genetics from Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
Heather has served as a clinical prenatal counselor at a major New York City medical center, a private maternal fetal medicine practice in Connecticut, and a community hospital in a New York City suburb, where she also served as the genetic counselor for the affiliated IVF program. In 2017, Heather joined a commercial genetics laboratory providing counseling and education to patients regarding their expanded carrier screening, non-invasive prenatal screening, and cancer predisposition testing results. She also has experience mentoring genetic counseling students and prospective genetic counseling students and co-authored a poster with Sequenom for a case study involving trophoblast mosaicism.
