Geisinger College of Health Sciences, USA
Erin Rooney Riggs, MS, CGC is a genetic counsellor and Associate Professor at the Geisinger Department of Developmental Medicine and the Geisinger College of Health Sciences. Her research is focused on developing and implementing standards for consistent, transparent gene and variant assessment, as well as facilitating active engagement from the patient community in the process of generating genomic knowledge. She is one of the principal investigators on the National Institutes of Health-funded Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen), a worldwide effort to define the clinical relevance of genes and variants for use in precision medicine and research. She is currently the co-chair of the ClinGen Gene-Disease Validity and Education, Coordination, and Training working groups, and is leading a collaboration between ClinGen, the American College of Medical Genetics & Genomics (ACMG), the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), and the College of American Pathologists (CAP) to update the classification guidelines for constitutional copy number variants. Erin also serves as an editor for Genetics in Medicine Open and is a member of the American Society of Human Genetics Digital Learning Committee.
