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Clinical Cancer Genetics Program

Faculty & Staff

The Clinical Cancer Genetics Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center is comprised of specially trained genetic counselors and physicians who work together to provide education, hereditary cancer risk assessment, genetic counseling and genetic testing, individualized cancer screening and prevention programs to people who are concerned about their personal and family history of cancer.

Medical Directors

Banu Arun, M.D. - Co-Medical Director, Breast Medical Oncology
Karen Lu, M.D. - Co-Medical Director, Gynecologic Oncology
Y. Nancy You, M.D., MHSc, FACS - Associate Medical Director, Surgical Oncology

Physicians and Faculty

Courtney D. DiNardo, M.D., MSCE – Leukemia
Elizabeth Grubbs, M.D. – Surgical Oncology
Eric Jonasch, M.D. – Genitourinary Medical Oncology
Jennifer Litton, M.D. – Breast Medical Oncology
Louise C. Strong, M.D. – Genetics
Miguel Rodriguez-Bigas, M.D. – Surgical Oncology
Nancy Perrier, M.D., F.A.C.S. – Surgical Oncology
Patrick Lynch, M.D., J.D. – Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Susan Peterson, Ph.D., M.P.H. – Behavioral Science
Selvi Thirumurthi, M.D. – Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Eduardo Vilar-Sanchez, M.D., Ph.D. – Clinical Cancer Prevention

Genetic Counselors

Samuel Hyde
MMSc, CGC
Endocrine Center

Samuel Hyde is a cancer Genetic Counselor in the Clinical Cancer Genetics program at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. He primarily works with patients in the Department of Endocrine Neoplasia and Hormonal Disorders, providing risk assessment and counseling to patients and families with hereditary endocrine disorders. He also provides genetic counseling services in the Sarcoma Center.

Jessica Ross
MS, CGC
Breast Center

Jessie Ross is a cancer Genetic Counselor at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her primary role is to provide risk assessment and genetic counseling services to individuals concerned for a hereditary predisposition to breast cancer. She also has special interest in the impact of genetic counseling in the pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patient population.

Maureen Mork
MS, CGC
GI Center

Maureen Mork is a Senior Genetic Counselor who specializes in counseling patients for hereditary gastrointestinal cancers at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is also involved in clinic research in hereditary GI cancers, with a special interest in early-onset colorectal cancer. She teaches and supervises students in the UT Genetic Counseling Program, and has also served as a thesis chair for genetic counseling graduate students.

Donika Saporito
MS, CGC
Breast Center

Donika Saporito is a cancer Genetic Counselor in the Clinical Caner Genetics program at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her primary clinical responsibilities include providing risk assessment and genetic counseling services to individuals concerned about hereditary cancer conditions. She is involved in supervising and teaching students from the UT Genetic Counseling Training Program.

Meagan Kaulfus
MS, CGC
Breast Center

Meagan Kaulfus is a cancer Genetic Counselor in Clinical Cancer Genetics within the Department of Breast Medical Oncology at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. She received her BS degree from Texas A&M University and an MS degree in Genetic Counseling from the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Julie Moskowitz
MS, CGC
GI Center

Julie Moskowitz, MS, CGC, is a cancer Genetic Counselor within the GI Center at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. She received her undergraduate degrees, a BS in Biology and a BA in Sociology and Social Psychology from Lehigh University in 2011 and her graduate degree, an MS in Genetic Counseling, from Long Island University in 2013.

Sara Wofford
MS, CGC
Houston Area Locations

Sara Wofford is a cancer Genetic Counselor in the Clinical Cancer Genetics program at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. She provides cancer risk assessment and counseling to patients at The Woodlands Houston Area Location and the Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital’s general oncology clinic, where she counsels the county’s underserved population.

Rachel Webster
MMSc, CGC
Breast Center

Rachel Webster is a certified Genetic Counselor in the Clinical Cancer Genetics program at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her primary role is to provide clinical hereditary cancer risk assessment and genetic counseling services in the Department of Breast Medical Oncology. She is also involved with the UT Genetic Counseling program as a course facilitator and clinical supervisor.

Nadine Rayes
MS, CGC
Gynecologic Oncology Center

Nadine Rayes is a cancer Genetic Counselor in the Clinical Cancer Genetics program at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her primary role is within the Department of Gynecologic Oncology working directly with patients to provide cancer risk assessment and counseling. She also provides genetic counseling in the Cancer Prevention Center.

Ashley Woodson
MS, CGC
GU Center

Ashley Woodson is a Senior Genetic Counselor in Clinical Cancer Genetics at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center and Associate Faculty member at the UTHealth Houston Health Science Center Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She has a BS degree in Human Biology from UT Austin and an MS degree in Genetic Counseling from UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Sarah Bannon
MS, CGC
Leukemia Center

Sarah Bannon is a Senior Genetic Counselor in the Department of Clinical Cancer Genetics at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her clinical responsibilities include providing risk assessment and genetic counseling services to individuals at risk for an inherited predisposition to hematologic malignancies (leukemia). She is the Genetic Counselor for the Hereditary Hematologic Malignancies Clinic (HHMC).

Molly Daniels
MS, CGC
Gynecologic Oncology Center

Molly S. Daniels, MS, CGC is a Senior Genetic Counselor at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center and has been there since 2002. She has adjunct appointments as an Associate Faculty Member at the UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and as a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at the UT Medical School at Houston.

Grace Tran
MS, CGC
Breast Center

Grace Tran, MS, CGC is a board certified Genetic Counselor in the Clinical Cancer Genetics program at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her clinical responsibilities include providing hereditary cancer risk assessment and genetic counseling services in the Breast Medical Oncology, Brain and Spine, and Pediatric departments.

Erica Bednar
MS, CGC
Gynecologic Oncology Center

Erica Bednar is a Genetic Counselor in the Clinical Cancer Genetics and the Moon Shots Program™ Cancer Prevention and Control Platform at MD Anderson. Erica leads a quality improvement dissemination to multiple oncology clinics to increase guideline-compliant genetic counseling and testing for breast and ovarian cancer patients. She provides genetic counseling in the Gynecologic Oncology departments at MD Anderson and Lyndon B. Johnson hospital.