About this series – Telehealth for Genetics Residents and Fellows. A monthly teaching session brought to you by the members of the RCPSC Specialty Committee in Medical Genetics.
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2025-2026 TeleGraf from 11:00am – 12:00pm ET on:
Friday, October 17, 2025
Vascular Anomalies: The Fast and Furious (and The Slow and Benign)
In this session, we will review the classification of vascular anomalies, comparing the different types of vascular tumours and malformations, and reflect on our role as geneticists in their assessment and management. Targeted gene-specific medications are becoming standard of care, and we will review current and emerging therapies in this space.
Learning Objectives:
- Outline how to classify vascular anomalies.
- Distinguish sporadic versus syndromic vascular anomalies.
- Develop an approach to the genetic work-up of vascular anomalies.
- Understand emerging therapies for the treatment of vascular anomalies.
Speaker: Dr. Alison Castle
Bio: Dr. Alison Castle is a clinical geneticist at the Provincial Medical Genetics Program in Vancouver, and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of British Columbia. Her clinical interests include general genetics, connective tissue disorders and vascular anomalies. When not praticing medicine or teaching residents, medical students, genetic counselling students or midwives, she can usually be found in the mountains.
