Elizabeth Fieg, MS, CGC, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Genetic Counseling program at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She is also a senior genetic counselor at Brigham & Women’s Hospital (BWH), where she sees patients in various clinical settings, including general adult genetics, endocrine genetics, and pharmacogenomics.
In addition to her clinical roles, Elizabeth is the program manager of a novel gene discovery research initiative called Brigham Genomic Medicine (BGM). She is also the BWH site coordinator and genetic counselor for the Harvard clinical site of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN), a clinical research program through the NIH designed to diagnose rare disease through clinical phenotyping and genomic sequencing.
- BA, Genetics, Connecticut College, New London, CT
- MS, Genetic Counseling, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Krieg E, Calderwood L, Campion M, Krepkovich KE. Confirmed versus suspected: the social significance of a genetic or non-genetic diagnosis of mitochondrial disease. Mitochondrion. 2016 May 1;28:60-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mito.2016.03.008
Macnamara EF, Schoch K, Kelley EG, Fieg E, Brokamp E, Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Signer R, LeBlanc K, McConkie‐Rosell A, Palmer CG. Cases from the Undiagnosed Diseases Network: The continued value of counseling skills in a new genomic era. Journal of genetic counseling. 2019 Apr;28(2):194-201. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgc4.1091
Accogli A, Calabretta S, St-Onge J, Boudrahem-Addour N, Dionne-Laporte A, Joset P, Azzarello-Burri S, Rauch A, Krier J, Fieg E, Pallais JC. De Novo Pathogenic Variants in N-cadherin Cause a Syndromic Neurodevelopmental Disorder with Corpus Collosum, Axon, Cardiac, Ocular, and Genital Defects. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 2019 Oct 3;105(4):854-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.09.005
Ravenscroft, T.A., Phillips, J.B., Fieg, E., Bajikar, S.S., Peirce, J., Wegner, J., Luna, A.A., Fox, E.J., Yan, Y.L., Rosenfeld, J.A. and Zirin, J., 2021. Heterozygous loss-of-function variants significantly expand the phenotypes associated with loss of GDF11. Genetics in Medicine, pp.1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41436-021-01216-8
Gammal, R.S. and Fieg, E., 2022. Pharmacist and genetic counselor collaboration in pharmacogenomics. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 79(18), pp.1516-1520. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajhp/zxac168