Leadership
Domonique Miles
Debra Sue Regier, MD
Debra Sue Regier, MD
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Geneticists
Nicholas Ah Mew, MD
Nicholas Ah Mew, MD
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Seth Ian Berger, MD, PhD
Seth Ian Berger, MD, PhD
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Deepika D'Cunha Burkardt, DO
Deepika D'Cunha Burkardt, DO
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Kimberly A. Chapman, MD, PhD
Kimberly A. Chapman, MD, PhD
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Jamie Lee Fraser, MD, PhD
Christina L. Grant, MD, PhD
Christina L. Grant, MD, PhD
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Eyby Luz Leon Janampa, MD
Amy Feldman Lewanda, MD
Amy Feldman Lewanda, MD
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Louise Clare Pyle, MD, PhD
Louise Clare Pyle, MD, PhD
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Kenneth N. Rosenbaum, MD
Kenneth N. Rosenbaum, MD
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Natasha Elizabeth Shur, MD
Natasha Elizabeth Shur, MD
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- Rare Disease Institute at the Research & Innovation Campus
- Montgomery County
- Main Hospital
- Northern Virginia
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Genetic Counselors
Anna Ferrigan
Andrew Freiman
Heather Hain
Heather Hain
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- English
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Quinlyn Highsmith
Christine Maccia
Christine Maccia
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- English
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Bio
Christine Lynn Maccia, M.S., C.G.C., is a genetic counselor in the Rare Disease Institute. She attended graduate school at the University of South Carolina. Contact her.
Darilyn Mahoney
Stephanie Middleton
Stephanie Middleton
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- English
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- Stephanie Middleton, M.S., C.G.C., is a genetic counselor certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling. She received her master’s degree in genetic counseling from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Prior to this, she worked as a genetic counseling assistant in a pediatric cancer genetics clinic at Texas Children’s Hospital and in clinical research at Stanford University. She joined the Cancer Genetics Program at Children’s National Hospital in September 2023 and sees patients and families with or at risk of having a cancer predisposition syndrome.
Ilana Miller
Ilana Miller
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- English
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Bio
Ilana Miller, M.S., C.G.C., is a genetic counselor in the Rare Disease Institute. She acquired her B.S. and M.S. degrees at the University of Michigan in 2016 and 2020. She received board certifications from the American Board of Genetic Counseling in 2020. Contact her.
Gabrielle Pomorski
Gabrielle Pomorski
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- English
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Bio
Gabrielle Pomorsky, B.S., M.S., is a genetic counselor at the Rare Disease Institute. She acquired her B.S. in behavioral neuroscience from Grand Valley State University in 2017 and an M.S. in genetic counseling from Wayne State University in 2020. Contact her.
Kara Simpson
Kara Simpson
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- English
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Biography
Board Certifications: American Board of Genetic Counseling, Brandeis University, B.S., 2005, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, M.S., 2007
Joyce Turner
Joyce Turner
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- English
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Biography
Joyce Turner, M.S., C.G.C., is a genetic counselor with over 25 years of experience. She is certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling. She also received advanced training in cancer risk assessment from the City of Hope.
Joyce worked at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health as a co-investigator and genetic counselor before taking a position at the Children’s National Hospital where she is now director of the Cancer Genetic Counseling Program, a program which she helped establish. Joyce’s current interests include research on somatic tumor analysis, Wilm's tumors and cancer screening and prevention. She is an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University Medical Center and serves as a supervisor for genetic counseling graduate students.
Julia Weston
Julia Weston
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- English
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Bio
Julia Weston is a genetic counselor in the Rare Disease Institute. She graduated from Virginia Tech in 2018 with a degree in biological sciences and graduated from Rutgers with a Master’s of Science in genetic counseling in May of 2020. She is originally from Roanoke, VA. Contact her.
Dieticians
Erin MacLeod
Erin MacLeod
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- English
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Biography
Erin MacLeod, Ph.D., RD, LD, completed her doctoral training at the University of Wisconsin in 2010 where her dissertation focused on the nutritional management of phenylketonuria. She joined Children’s National Hospital that same year and is the director of metabolic nutrition. Her research interests include nutrition education of metabolic disorders, PKU and urea cycle disorders.
Nina Mickle
Nina Mickle
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- English
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Biography
Nina Mickle earned her Master of Nutrition from Hunter College in 2018. While completing her coursework, Nina developed a passion for metabolism after volunteering at the Mount Sinai metabolism clinic and seeing the impact metabolic dietitians had on their patients. Following graduation, Nina completed her dietetics training at the NIH Clinical Center in 2019, which included a rotation at Children’s National’s Hospital Genetics and Metabolism Clinic. Nina worked as an inpatient clinical dietitian at Children’s National from 2019-2021, with specific focus on patients with complex care needs. Now, her role as a Metabolic Dietitian at CNRIC feels like coming home.
Danielle Starin
Danielle Starin
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- English
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Danielle Starin, RD, completed her nutrition education at the University of Maryland and her dietetic internship at the National Institutes of Health. She joined the Children’s National Rare Disease Institute in 2016. Her clinical interests focus on metabolic disorders. Her research interests focus on dietary treatment of metabolic disorders and associated outcomes.
Physician Assistant
KeriAnn White Kuperman, PA-C
KeriAnn White Kuperman, PA-C
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Nurse Practitioners
Allison Ann Failla, NP
Allison Ann Failla, NP
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Care Team Professionals
Kiadra Blanton
Grecia Llanos
Kelly McNulty
Natalie Morton
Natalie Morton
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- English
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- Natalie Morton, BSN, RN, BMT-CN, CPHON, is the Cancer Genetics coordinator. She received her BSN from Radford University’s Nursing School. She started her career as a bedside nurse on the Hematology/Oncology/BMT unit at Children’s National Hospital in 2018. She joined the Cancer Genetics Program in October 2022.
Danielle Schwalk
Tiffany Swaringer
Spencer Vause
Spencer Vause
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- English
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Anielka Zuniga Cruz
Anielka Zuniga Cruz
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- English