2025 ACMG Genetics and Genomics Review Course (Online)

Self-Paced Content: Available May 19

Live Streaming & Q&A: June 2-6

Advance Registration: March 12 – April 1 – Save $100

Institutional Registration Available: Contact Education@acmg.net

Content Release: May 19, 2025

Credits: AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM, ASCLS P.A.C.E.®, Lifelong Learning

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Availability
On-Demand
5 Courses
Release on May 19, 2025 12:00 AM Central Daylight Time
Expires on May 19, 2026
Cost
ACMG Member: $995.00
Non-Member: $1,095.00
Postdoc/Trainee (M): $995.00
Postdoc/Trainee (NM): $1,095.00
Student (M): $995.00
Student (NM): $1,095.00
Credit Offered
29 CME (AMA) Credits
29 CME (Other) Credits
29 Certificate of Participation Credits
29 P.A.C.E. Credits
29 CCP-PART II Credits

2025 Genetics & Genomics Review Course Online

Self-Paced Content: Available May 19

Live Streaming & Q&A: June 2-6

 

Institutional Registration Available: Contact Education@acmg.net

Content Release: May 19, 2025 -  Credit Claiming Deadline: May 19, 2026

Credits: AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM, ASCLS P.A.C.E.®, Lifelong Learning

 

Course Description

Packed with content to help you prepare for the ABMGG Board Exam or Take the Course as a Refresher.

The 2025 ACMG Genetics and Genomics Review Course will be offered via the ACMG Genetics Academy. Topics include exam preparation and lectures that cover a broad range of genetic and genomic topics presented by recognized experts in the field (see list below). Registration is open with live Q&A sessions June 2-6. Need to do it all in a week – we have a schedule for you too.

 

This course consists of the following:

  • 5 Live Zoom Q&A Sessions with Faculty and a Live Exam Workshop
  • A Pre- Exam (required)
  • 20 Recorded Lectures
  • PDFs of slides provided
  • ACMG Board Review QBank with over 600 questions. Build your own exam, Test, Retake, Rebuild…
  • Electronic Syllabus
  • Exam Book by Sections

Available in mid-May Printed Syllabus on demand (additional fee). Available for purchase here.

 

Target Audience

This course is designed to assist genetics healthcare professionals who are seeking to update and reinforce their general knowledge of medical genetics. This course also allows ABMGG individuals to prepare for Board Certification. Genetic counselors are welcome to participate in this course.

Registration Type

Registration Fee

Member

$995

Non-Member

$1,095

Postdoc/Trainee M

$995

Postdoc/Trainee NM

$1,095

Student M

$995

Student NM

$1,095


Institutional pricing is $995/person. Contact Education@acmg.net for processing.

Topics include:

Cell Biology/Genomics

Genetic Counseling & Risk Assessment

Molecular Biology

Newborn Screening

Laboratory Genetics and Genomics

Neurogenetics

Genetic Transmission

Reproductive Genetics

Biochemical Genetics

Systems-Based Disorders

Developmental Genetics

Genomic Medicine

Cancer Genetics

 

  

Overall Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, you should be able to:

  • Identify common genetic disorders
  • Discuss the clinical features of common genetic disorders
  • Interpret genetic test data
  • Explain how to communicate molecular test results to families
  • Perform basic quantitative genetic calculations
  • Solve basic quantitative genetic calculations related problems
  • Describe principles of cytogenetics
  • Identify features of common chromosomal disorders
  • Recognize clinical features of selected metabolic disorders
  • Describe the molecular basis of selected metabolic disorders
  • Review how to provide counseling about selected metabolic disorders
  • Discuss the extents and limits of prenatal tests
  • Explain how to perform routine prenatal counseling
  • Explain clinical and molecular aspects of inherited cancer syndromes
  • Provide genetic counseling for common human cancers
  • Incorporate genomics into clinical practice

 

Topic Learning Objectives

Exam Preparation Practice Exam & Tips – John A. Bernat, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Identify areas where further preparation is needed
  • Prepare for on-going exam preparation and effectively, and optimize opportunities offered at the Genetics and Genomics Review Course

Cell Biology/Genomics – Fady M. Mikhail, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Provide a brief history of cytogenetics
  • Review chromosome structure and composition of the human genome  
  • Paraphrase the mammalian cell cycle and appropriately describe the steps of meiosis and mitosis.
  • Review the types of chromosomal abnormalities and clinical cytogenetic disorders including polyploidy and aneuploidy disorders
  • Discuss X chromosome inactivation and the pseudoautosomal regions

Genomics - Basics – Robert Hufnagel, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Describe molecular testing methods
  • Compare testing strategies based on spectrum of pathogenic variants
  • Apply genetic/genomic concepts for diagnostic testing

Clinical Cytogenetics – Fady M. Mikhail, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Review the clinical indications for cytogenetic analysis
  • Describe the methods of chromosome analysis and their applications to patient’s diagnosis
  • Review the basics of the cytogenetic nomenclature
  • Discuss copy number variants and their molecular mechanisms
  • Define genomic disorders including recurrent microdeletion/microduplication syndromes
  • Discuss genomic imprinting and its role in disease
  • Provide an overview of cancer cytogenetics

Clinical Molecular Genetics - Pinar Bayrak-Toydemir, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Apply Bayesian calculation to carrier residual risk
  • Review molecular test strategies and results for common disorders
  • Interpret molecular results for triplet repeat diseases

Cancer Genetics I - Sharon E. Plon, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Recognize the major mutation types for oncogenes in tumor samples
  • Define the pattern of cancer and recurrence risk for patients with RB1, P53 and APC pathogenic variants.
  • Define the Knudson two-hit hypothesis as it applies to hereditary and sporadic cancers

Cancer Genetics II - Sharon E. Plon, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Distinguish the genetic mechanisms that result in the two major forms of hereditary colon cancer.
  • Define the cancer risk and risk management recommendations for hereditary breast – ovarian cancer. 
  • Summarize the major classes of autosomal recessive disorders that result in an increased risk of childhood cancer. 

Newborn Screening - Angela Grochowsky, MD, FACMG

  • Review the approach used in Newborn Screening (NBS)
  • Review clinical presentations, Dx & Rx of selected disorders in the TN NBS Panel
  • Access ACMG ACT sheets & New England Emergency Protocols
  • Use the ACMG ACT sheets & New England Emergency Protocols

Developmental Genetics - Anthony J. Wynshaw-Boris, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Analyze normal human embryology and development
  • Select and appropriately use electronic references and texts to work up patients with dysmorphology.
  • Distinguish and classify common birth defects, such as malformations, deformations, disruptions and syndromes, and counsel families about recurrence.

Genetic Counseling & Risk Assessment - TBA

  • Interpret family and medical histories in combination with results of genetic testing
  • Assess the chance of disease occurrence or recurrence.
  • Provide counseling to promote informed choices and adaptation to the risk or condition

Biochemical Genetics I - Walla Al-Hertani, MD, FACMG

  • Describe biochemical mechanisms of common classes of metabolic disorders
  • List common principles of inborn errors of metabolism
  • Describe treatment strategies for common metabolic disorders

Genetic Transmission - Bruce R. Korf, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Recognize patterns of Mendelian transmission
  • Describe deviations from classical Mendelian transmission
  • Perform basic population genetic calculations
  • Describe models of multifactorial inheritance
  • Use odds ratios in risk assessment based on GWAS data
  • Explain how polygenic rick scores are derived

Reproductive Genetics I - Louise E. Wilkins-Haug, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Examine aneuploidy screening
  • Compare serum screening to Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT, ffDNA, cfDNA,)
  • Explain the caveats of cfDNA
  • Assess the role of fetal ultrasound “soft markers” and structural anomalies

Neurogenetics - Bruce R. Korf, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Formulate genetic differential diagnosis for neurological problems
  • Recognize indications for genetic testing for neurological disorders
  • Describe natural history and management for selected neurogenetic disorders

Biochemical Genetics II - Walla Al-Hertani, MD, FACMG

  • Explain the mechanisms of recombination, transitions, TRN expansions, DNA methylation silencing, gene fusions, imprinting, and provide examples of each
  • Describe DNA and gene structure, function, replication, and expression
  • Identify types of polymorphisms and pathogenic variants, with examples of each

Systems-Based Disorders I - Angela Grochowsky, MD, FACMG

  • Describe the molecular basis of each of the genetic disorders reviewed. 
  • Interpret laboratory data on molecular tests for the most common genetic disorders.
  • Describe multiple testing technologies and testing strategies designed to test for specific types of pathogenic variants, as well as the limitations of the test.

Exam Workshop - John A. Bernat, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Identify areas where further preparation is needed
  • Direct post-course preparation to specific resources
  • Optimize exam performance

Systems-Based Disorders II - Angela Grochowsky, MD, FACMG

  • Summarize selected genetic pulmonary, immunology, hematology, endocrine, connective tissue, and renal disorders
  • Select disorders that are important, have treatment options and/or a recent GeneReviews update
  • Emphasize key clinical features; genetic, diagnostic & management information for each disorder

Reproductive Genetics II - Louise E. Wilkins-Haug, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Discuss the modalities for screening for aneuploidy.
  • Compare prenatal diagnostic tests – pros and cons.
  • Describe how to incorporate ultrasound findings into prenatal genetic risk assessment.

Clinical Genomics - Robert Hufnagel, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Classify variants following ACMG/AMP guidelines
  • Identify resources to support gene-disease validity assessment
  • Define approaches to analyze genomic data

Genomic Medicine - Bruce R. Korf, MD, PhD, FACMG

  • Discuss the genetic principles and clinical presentation of the genetic conditions used as examples
  • Recognize the importance of the emerging field of pharmacogenetics to healthcare and the personalized medicine movement
  • List challenges to applying pharmacogenetics to patient care at the present time

Course Director


Bruce R. Korf, MD, PhD, FACMG

Wayne H. and Sara Crews Finley Endowed Chair in Medical Genetics

Chief Genomics Officer, UAB Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham

 

Dr. Korf is the Associate Dean for Genomic Medicine, School of Medicine; Chief Genomics Officer, UAB Medicine; Wayne H. and Sara Crews Finley Endowed Chair in Medical Genetics, Professor of Genetics, Co-Director of the UAB-HudsonAlpha Center for Genomic Medicine, Associate Director for Rare Diseases, Hugh Kaul Personalized Medicine Institute and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Human Genetics.  Dr. Korf is past president of the Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics, past president of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, and current president of the ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine. He has served on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH. His major research interests are genomic medicine and natural history, genetics, and treatment of neurofibromatosis. He serves as principal investigator of the Department of Defense funded Neurofibromatosis Clinical Trials Consortium, and co-PI of the Alabama Genomic Health Initiative and the All of Us Southern Network. He is co-author of Human Genetics and Genomics (medical student textbook, now in fourth edition), and Emery and Rimoin’s Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics.

 

Dr. Korf received his bachelors and medical degrees from Cornell University.  He completed his PhD in Genetics and Cell Biology at Rockefeller University.  He completed residency in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, neurology in the Harvard-Longwood Neurology Training Program, and genetics in the Harvard Medical School Genetics Training Program.  He is certified by the American Board of Genetics and Genomics in clinical genetics, clinical cytogenetics, and clinical molecular genetics; the American Board of Pediatrics in pediatrics; the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in neurology (child neurology). 



Faculty

Walla Al-Hertani, MD. FACMG

Director, Boston Children's Lysosomal Disease Program (BoLD)

Attending Physician

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Dr. Walla Al-Hertani is a Medical Biochemical Geneticist and a Clinical Geneticist with expertise in inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs) and a special interest in Lysosomal Storage Diseases and Glycogen Storage Diseases. Dr. Al-Hertani received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, followed by the completion of a Clinical Genetics residency at the University of Ottawa and a Medical Biochemical Genetics fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the University of Toronto. Dr. Al-Hertani practiced as a Medical Biochemical Geneticist and a Clinical Geneticist at the Montreal Children’s Hospital and McGill University, followed by the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, Canada before relocating to Boston. Dr. Al-Hertani is the Director of the Metabolism Program and the Boston Children’s Lysosomal Disease (BoLD) Program and is actively involved in a number of clinical trials investigating innovative therapies for IEMs and rare diseases.

 

Pinar Bayrak-Toydemir, MD, PhD, FACMG

University of Utah School of Medicine

Professor, Clinical Pathology

Medical Genetics and Genomics Department

 

Dr. Bayrak-Toydemir is a medical director of the Molecular Genetics and Genomics Department at ARUP and a professor (tenure) of clinical pathology at the University of Utah’s School of Medicine. Dr. Bayrak-Toydemir received her MD at the Ankara University School of Medicine, and PhD in human genetics at the Ankara University School of Medicine. She completed a fellowship in clinical molecular genetics at the University of Utah, School of Medicine. She is certified with the American Board of Medical Genetics Medical Genetics and Genomics in Laboratory Genetics and Genomics, and a member of the American Society of Human Genetics, Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Foundation International, Inc., and the Turkish Society of Medical Genetics. 

She served in the Academic Senate (2017-2019). She is a member of the School of Medicine Faculty Appointment, Review, & Advancement Committee. She is also member of the School of Medicine College Council.

Dr. Bayrak-Toydemir has focused her research efforts on understanding the molecular genetic characteristics of inherited vascular diseases. She primarily studies Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) disease. In addition to HHT, her research aims to identify genes that cause various inherited vascular malformations, including capillary malformation-arteriovenous malformation syndrome.

 

John A. Bernat, MD, PhD, FACMG

Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Division of Medical Genetics and Genomics

University of Iowa

 

John Bernat, MD, PhD, is a clinical associate professor in the Division of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, at the University of Iowa. He is board-certified in clinical genetics and genomics and clinical molecular genetics and genomics. His clinical interests include lysosomal disorders, skeletal dysplasias, and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. He currently serves as a site principal investigator for eleven active clinical trials involving lysosomal disorders and related metabolic disorders, including two gene therapy trials. He also serves as Past-Chair for ACMG's Education and CME committee.


Angela Grochowsky, MD, FACMG, FAAP, FACP

Associate Professor

Vanderbilt University Genetics

 

Dr. Angela Grochowsky is from a small town in Alabama near Huntsville. She pursued her undergraduate degree at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Dr. Grochowsky obtained her medical degree from The University of Alabama School of Medicine in 2013. She then completed her combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency at Indiana University. She went on to do her Medical Genetics fellowship at The National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins consortium. In addition, she went on to complete an additional fellowship in Medical Biochemical Genetics at The National Institutes of Health. She is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Medical Genetics, and Biochemical Genetics.  Dr. Grochowsky is passionate about caring for patients with genetic and biochemical disorders ranging from newborn to the end of life. She is highly interested in transitional care for patients with complex medical needs and has started a new Adult Down syndrome clinic at Vanderbilt over the past couple of years. She also loves teaching and helping healthcare professionals learn, understand, and appreciate the significance of genetics in patient care. She is the new Program Director for the Genetics Residency program at Vanderbilt and thoroughly enjoys spending time with residents and trainees.  When Dr. Grochowsky is not seeing patients or teaching she enjoys spending time with her 3 year old daughter, 1 year old son, French bulldog and husband. She is living out her dream job and truly loving being a Medical Geneticist.

 

Robert Hufnagel, MD, PhD, FACMG

Kaiser Permanente Hawaii

 

Dr. Robert Hufnagel is a clinician-scientist in the Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch of the National Eye Institute. This branch of the National Institutes of Health plans and conducts clinical and laboratory research of gene expression, molecular genetics, cell biology, and molecular interactions important to the eye, and applies clinically relevant research findings to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases affecting the eye and the visual system.

 

The goal of Dr. Hufnagel’s cutting edge research program applies the scientific approaches of developmental biology and molecular genetics to hereditary ophthalmic diseases to improve diagnosis and ultimately vision for these patients. Dr. Hufnagel has developed a translational research program using genomic sequencing to identify disease etiologies to discover novel disease genes and molecular targets for therapeutic trials.

 

His medical and research training has centered around clinical genetics, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, genome editing, induced pluripotent stem cells, and animal models including mouse, zebrafish, and lizard.

 

Dr. Hufnagel received his Ph.D. in neuroscience and his M.D. from The University of Cincinnati. He has published numerous publications and received many accolades for his work including the Director’s Award from the National Eye Institute.

 

Fady M. Mikhail, MD, PhD, FACMG

Co-Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory

Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham

 

Dr. Mikhail graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1990. He completed his Clinical Pathology residency at the Department of Clinical Pathology in the same University.  He received an Egyptian government scholarship to conduct this PhD thesis research work in the United States where he worked as a visiting scholar in the Pathology Department, School of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL.  He earned his PhD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Egypt in 2003.  Dr. Mikhail did his Clinical Cytogenetics fellowship at the Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, and was certified by the ABMGG in 2007.  He joined the faculty in the Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL as an Assistant Professor in 2006. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012 and to a full Professor in 2017.  Dr. Mikhail served on the ACMG Laboratory Quality Assurance (Lab QA) Committee from 2011 to 2021 and served as the chair of this committee from 2019 to 2021.  His research interests include identification of novel constitutional genomic disorders caused by microdeletions and microduplications using chromosomal microarray (CMA) technologies with special interest in neurodevelopmental disorders, and characterization of the clinical phenotype, molecular breakpoints, mechanism of rearrangement, as well as the functional categorization of the involved genes.  Dr. Mikhail’s research interests also include identification of novel cytogenetic rearrangements in patients with various hematologic malignancies that might have a causal role in the oncogenic process using molecular cytogenetic techniques, and identification of the underlying genes.

 

Sharon E. Plon, MD, PhD, FACMG

Professor, Pediatrics/Hematology-Oncology

Professor, Molecular and Human Genetics

 Human Genome Sequencing Center

Director, Medical Scientist Training Program

Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine

 

Dr. Sharon Plon is a board-certified medical geneticist and a longstanding cancer genetics researcher, leading to the discovery of new cancer susceptibility genes and the implementation of genomic testing in medicine.  Dr. Plon holds the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center Professorship at Baylor College of Medicine in the Departments of Pediatrics/Hematology-Oncology, Molecular and Human Genetics and Human Genome Sequencing Center. Drs. Plon and D. William Parsons were principal investigators of the NHGRI/NCI-funded BASIC3 clinical trial on the incorporation of exome sequencing into the care of newly diagnosed childhood cancer patients and this study is now being expanded into diverse patient populations across Texas (KidsCanSeq trial). Since 2013, Dr. Plon has served as one of the Principal Investigators of the Clinical Genome (ClinGen) Resource and chairs the ClinGen hereditary cancer effort. She currently co-chairs the germline reporting effort of the national NCI/COG Pediatric MATCH Precision Oncology trial. Dr. Plon is also working closely with Dr. Philip Lupo on a population-based study to understand the association between birth defects and cancer risk in children. Dr. Plon recently finished terms on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Human Genetics and the NIH Human Genome Research Advisory Council.

 

Louise E. Wilkins‐Haug, MD, PhD, FACMG Division Director, Maternal Fetal Medicine and Reproductive Genetics

Brigham & Women's Hospital

Professor, Obstetrics/Gynecology

Harvard Medical School

 

Dr. Wilkins-Haug is board certified in both maternal-fetal medicine and clinical genetics with a focus on the integration of genetics into obstetric care and the investigation of prenatal exposures and birth defects. She received her PhD in genetics from the Medical College of Virginia, her medical degree from Stanford and completed her training in obstetrics and gynecology training at the University of Colorado and her Maternal Fetal Medicine fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard, Boston Massachusetts. She remained at BWH where she is a professor in the Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is director for the combined Maternal-Fetal/ Genetics Fellowship and the Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship and the Division Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Reproductive Genetics. As director for the Center for Fetal Medicine she oversees the provision of genetic counseling, perinatal consultation, fetal treatment and diagnostic testing.

Anthony Wynshaw‐Boris, MD, PhD, FACMG

James H. Jewell Professor of Genetics

Chair, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences

Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine

University Hospitals Case Medical Center

 

Tony Wynshaw-Boris received his MD, PhD degrees from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. His PhD was under the direction of Richard Hanson, PhD, where he elucidated the sequences within the PEPCK promoter required for activation by cAMP and glucocorticoids.

He did his residency at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, in Pediatrics followed by a medical genetics fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital. While in Boston, he did a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School under the direction of Philip Leder, MD, where he studied mouse models of developmental disorders.

 

In 1994, Dr. Wynshaw-Boris set up an independent laboratory at the National Human Genome Research Institute of the NIH, where he initiated a program using mouse models to study human genetic diseases, with a focus on neurogenetic diseases. In 1999, he moved to UCSD School of Medicine, where he became Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, as well as Chief of the Division of Medical Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics.

 

In 2007, he moved to UCSF School of Medicine, where he was the Charles J. Epstein Professor of Human Genetics and Pediatrics, and the Chief of the Division of Medical Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics. At UCSF, in addition to mouse models, his laboratory began to use patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) models to study human disease. In June 2013, he returned to Cleveland to become the Chair of the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences. His laboratory continues to use mouse and iPSC models to shed light on mechanisms of neurogenetic diseases with the ultimate goal of providing novel therapies.

 

Dr. Wynshaw-Boris was President of the American Society for Human Genetics for 2020 and is now Past President in 2021. He was appointed to the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health, in 2019. He has also been elected to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the American Pediatric Society, and he was elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

 

 

AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM, ASCLS P.A.C.E.®, Lifelong Learning

 

Accreditation

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 

Credit Designation

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics designates this Other (includes a combination of self-paced learning, live streaming, faculty-led live Q&A sessions, and recorded Q&A sessions) activity for a maximum of 29 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

The American Medical Association (AMA) defines physicians as those individuals who have obtained an MD, DO, or equivalent medical degree from another country. Non-physicians may request a certificate of attendance for their participation.

 

ABMGG Continuing Certification - Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (Part II)

ABMGG diplomates must demonstrate involvement in continuing education as part of the Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (Part II) requirement of the ABMGG Continuing Certification Program (CCP). Successful completion includes participation in the live question/answer periods, viewing of lectures, evaluation components, testing components, all enable participants to earn a certificate of completion for submission via the ABMGG Portal towards this requirement.

 

ASCLS P.A.C.E.® CEU's 

ACMG is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) Professional Acknowledgment for Continuing Education (P.A.C.E.®) Program.

 

ACMG is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel as CE Provider (50-11878). This course is registered with CEBroker #20-1289337. ACMG is approved by the California Department of Health Services through the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® (275-200-25). This activity has been approved for 2.9 P.A.C.E.® CEU's.

 

NSGC Category 2 CEUs/Genetic Counselors (self-report)

This activity meets requirements to apply for Category 2 CEUs from the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC). Please complete the module and submit your certificate to NSGC, using the instructions for “How To Submit a Category 2 CEU Application in the NSGC CEU Portal.” ACMG is the accredited sponsor. You must apply within three months (90 days) of the activity date. NSGC charges a $50 fee for processing and a certificate.

 

Learner Data Consent

ACMG Education reports learner data to respective agency boards and you will be asked for consent during the evaluation process. Your compliance with deadlines and completing evaluations are part of the process in meeting learner needs and ACMG’s education mission.

 

Claiming your Educational Credits

Each attendee seeking credit must claim time spent in a session and complete each session evaluation.

 

Accredited Continuing Education Financial Disclosure

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide Accredited Continuing Education (ACE) for physicians. ACMG is an organization committed to improvement of patient care and general health by the incorporation of genetics and genomics into clinical practice.

ACMG has implemented the following procedures to ensure the independence of ACE activities from commercial influence/promotional bias, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) requires that providers (ACMG) must be able to demonstrate that: 1) everyone in a position to control the content of an ACE activity has disclosed all financial relationships that they have had in the past 24 months with ineligible* companies; 2) ACMG has implemented a mechanism to mitigate relevant financial relationships; and 3) all financial relationships with ineligible companies are disclosed to the learners before the beginning of the educational activity. The learners must also be informed if no relevant financial relationships exist.

*Ineligible companies are defined as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

ACMG Education Policies

Please review the policies below regarding the ACMG Education program

 

All relevant financial relationships listed have been mitigated.

Name

Role: Presenter/Panelist/Moderator/ Liaison/Program Committee Member/Peer Reviewer

Financial Disclosure for 24 Months (relationship is ongoing unless stated)

Walla Al-Hertani, MD. FACMG

Planner / Presenter

pending

Pinar Bayrak-Toydemir, MD, PhD, FACMG

Planner / Presenter

No Relevant Financial Relationships

John Bernat, MD, PhD, FACMG

Planner / Presenter

Research Support: Avrobio, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., Chiesi Farmaceutici, Denali Therapeutics, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals, Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Inc., Protalix Biotherapeutics, Sangamo Therapeutics, Sanofi, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Travere Therapeutics, Inc.

Angela Grochowsky, MD, FACMG

Planner / Presenter

No Relevant Financial Relationships

Robert Hufnagel, MD, PhD, FACMG

Planner / Presenter

No Relevant Financial Relationships

Bruce Korf, MD, PhD, FACMG

Planner / Presenter

Consultant: Alexion Pharmaceutical, Genome Medical, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Healx, SpringWorks Therapeutics, Infixion

Fady Mikhail, MD, PhD, FACMG, MD, PhD, FACMG

Planner / Presenter

No Relevant Financial Relationships

Sharon Plon, MD, PhD, FACMG

Planner / Presenter

pending

Louise Wilkins-Haug

Planner / Presenter

Consultant: Wolters Klewer Health, Inc.

Tony Wynshaw-Boris, MD, PhD, FACMG

Planner / Presenter

No Relevant Financial Relationships

Jane E. Radford, MHA, CHCP

ACMG Staff

No Relevant Financial Relationships

Claudia Barnett

ACMG Staff

No Relevant Financial Relationships

 

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