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Pooja Dasani

Principal genetic counsellor

Pooja is the Genetic Counselling Lead at North Thames GMSA and Principal Genetic Counsellor based at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Pooja has extensive experience as a senior clinical genetic counsellor at various NHS trusts in England. She is a board member of the Genetic Counselling Registration Board (GCRB).

Pooja has expertise and holds a specialist interest in facilitating information transmission across cultural and language barriers. She has a background in genomics education and facilitating training of health professionals locally and nationally. She leads the Counselling skills in genomics module for the MSc in Genomic Medicine at Queen Mary University London.

Pooja takes an active role in mentoring and service development and is a keen advocate of developing the role of the genetic counsellor.

Specialisms

Areas of interest: Genomics education, Prenatal genetics

Selected publications:

Dasani, P. (2023) Steps to delivering a genetic test result: Using

patient perspectives to improve future care. Eurpoean Society of Human Genetics poster presentation. Glasgow, UK.

Barrett, L., Bhumbra, J., Dasani, P. (2023) Reviewing our prenatal referral pathway: Improving equity of care. Eurpoean Society of Human Genetics poster presentation. Glasgow, UK.

Longworth, A., Hoffman, J., Sharma-Oates, A., Ong, K.R., Hart, R., Wallis, Y., Considine, A., Dasani, P., Ganesan, R., Tomlinson, I. and Sundar, S., 2020. Abstract P2-10-13: Genetics and pathological correlation of BRCA status in patients of Asian origin diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer; a UK Reference Genetics Laboratory Study. Cancer Research, 80(4_Supplement), pp.P2-10.

Zaakouk, M., Longworth, A., Hoffman, J., Sharma-Oates, A., Ong, K.R., Hart, R., Wallis, Y., Considine, A., Dasani, P., Ganesan, R. and Tomlinson, I., 2020. P024: Genetics and pathological features of breast cancer in patients of non-caucasian origin-Reference genetics centre laboratory results. European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 46(6), p.e17.

Dasani, P., Coulson, A. (2019) Managing VUS results in a mainstream setting: learning from a case example. World Congress on Genetic Counselling poster presentation. Cambridge, UK.