Sarah Kalia, ScM, CGC is a certified and licensed genetic counselor with over nine years in practice. She is also a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health studying genetic epidemiology and biostatistics. She has worked in a variety of settings, including telegenetics, outpatient genetics clinics, research project management, and healthcare software implementation. She has served in leadership positions for the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC), including as Chair of the Practice Guidelines Committee and Chair of the Advisory Group for the Jane Engelberg Memorial Fellowship, a group that reviews grant submissions, manuscripts, and project proposals for research funding. She is a member of the NSGC Research, Quality, and Outcomes Committee.
Ms. Kalia has served as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Genetic Counseling, Genetics in Medicine, and the Journal of Medical Genetics. She has also served as a reviewer and voting member on the Partners Healthcare Human Research Committee. She was a member of the Secondary Findings Maintenance Workgroup for the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics.
Ms. Kalia previously worked as Director of Research Development and Senior Project Manager at the Genomes2People Research Program, where she managed research studies in translational genomics and direct-to-consumer genetic testing, co-authored manuscripts, and assisted with grant writing.
- BA, Biological Sciences and Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- ScM, Genetic Counseling, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Research Interests
Ms. Kalia’s research interests focus on integrating polygenic risk scores into risk prediction models to improve population-level risk stratification.
Presentations
What’s the Evidence? Genetic Counseling in the Era of Evidence-based Medicine. Workshop at the 2020 virtual annual conference of the National Society of Genetic Counselors.
ACMG Recommendations for Reporting of Incidental Findings in Clinical Exome and Genome Sequencing. “Genomic Data: Challenges to the Concept and Practice of Genetic Counseling” 2015 workshop, Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Genetic Counseling in The BabySeq Project: A Randomized Trial of Genomic Sequencing in Healthy and Sick Newborns. “Genomic Data: Challenges to the Concept and Practice of Genetic Counsellng” 2015 workshop, Institut Curie, Paris, France.
ACMG Recommendations for Return of Incidental Findings in Clinical Sequencing. Sponsored by Macrogen, Inc. at the 2014 annual meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Nashville, TN.
ACMG Recommendations for Return of Incidental Findings in Clinical Sequencing: Process and Product. Plenary session at the 2013 annual education conference of the National Society of Genetic Counselors, Anaheim, CA.
Ormond, KE, O’Daniel JM, Kalia SS (2019). Secondary findings: How did we get here, and where are we going? J Genet Couns, 28(2):326-333. doi: 10.1002/jgc4.1098. PMID: 30821867.
Kalia SS, Adelman K, Bale SJ, Chung WK, Eng C, Evans JP, Herman GE, Hufnagel SB, Klein TE, Korf BR, McKelvey KD, Ormond KE, Richards CS, Vlangos CN, Watson M, Martin CL, Miller DT (2017). Recommendations for reporting of secondary findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing, 2016 update (ACMG SF v2.0): a policy statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. Genet Med, 19(2):249-255. doi: 10.1038/gim.2016.190. PMID: 27854360.
Christensen K, Kalia SS, Green RC. Incidental and secondary findings from genetic testing. In: UpToDate, Post TW (Ed), UpToDate, Waltham, MA.
Krier JB, Kalia SS, Green RC (2016). Genomic sequencing in clinical practice: applications, challenges, and opportunities. Dialogues Clin Neurosci, 18(3): 299-312. doi: 10.31887/DCNS.2016.18.3/jkrier. PMID: 27757064; PMCID: PMC5067147.
Green RC, Berg JS, Grody WW, Kalia SS, Korf BR, Martin CL, McGuire AL, Nussbaum RL, O’Daniel JM, Ormond KE, Rehm HL, Watson MS, Williams MS, Biesecker LG (2013). ACMG recommendations for reporting of incidental findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing. Genet Med, 15(7): 565–574. doi: 10.1038/gim.2013.73. PMID: 23788249; PMCID: PMC3727274.