Dr. Heather Hanson Pierce Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust, UK

Dr Pierce is a GCRB-Registered Genetic Counsellor. She is currently a Principal Genetic Counsellor and the Education and Training Lead in the Clinical Genetics Department at Addenbrooke’s, where she has worked since 2015. She has a PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology from the University of North Carolina, a Master... read moreof Science in Genetic Counselling from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and she obtained Certification from the American Board of Genetic Counsellors in 1999. Dr Pierce has over 20 years of combined experience in clinical practice, academic teaching, and laboratory result interpretation. Her special interests include hereditary cancer syndromes, neurogenetics, and genomic variant interpretation.