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, November 21, 2025
Overview of Prenatal Risk Determination
In this presentation, the speaker will provide a high level review of the considerations that go into risk assessment for a fetus (prenatal screening), concepts of testing options at each level.
Learning objectives:
- Identify controversies around testing in each area.
- Compare different screening targets in pregnancy.
- Describe the use of different prenatal screening tests in pregnancy.
- Recognize populations at increased risk of genetic disorders.
Speaker: Dr. Joanna Lazier
Dr. Joanna Lazier is a Clinical Geneticist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa. She completed her training in Calgary, and then worked in Edmonton where she led the creation of their prenatal genetics clinic. She has a longstanding clinical interest in prenatal genetics, and recently co-chaired the CCMG working group for reproductive carrier screening. She is the current co-chair of the CCMG working group for prenatal cell free DNA screening.
