Stephanie Meredith

At the end of 2019, the Administration for Community Living awarded a new grant totaling $1.5 million over three years to develop and disseminate protocols to address and prevent healthcare discrimination that can impact Americans with disabilities across the lifespan. The University of Cincinnati Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities was awarded the grant Read more…

On Friday, October 18, we will be presenting at the American Society of Human Genetics 2019 Annual Meeting on a panel with other experts on “The Intersection of Genetics and the Disability Rights Movement: Beginning a Dialogue about the Impact of Prenatal Genetic Screening and Testing on Historically Stigmatized Populations” Read more…

On October 5, we will be presenting at the American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists 2019 Fall Conference: 2019 Advances in Women’s Health on “Utilizing Best Practices to Communicate With Patients About Unexpected Prenatal Chromosomal Results” from 2:15pm-3:00pm in Columbus, OH. We will also be sharing free resources from Read more…

We’re happy to share that our National Center for Prenatal and Postnatal Resources has been invited to Washington DC on March 8 to help lead patient advocacy conversations on prenatal genetics at an American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) as part of their Advisory Panels on Precision Medicine and Prenatal Genetics (cfDNA).

We will be presenting the following sessions at the Down syndrome leadership conference in St. Louis, MO Feb. 28-Mar. 3, 2019: Brace for the Changing Landscape of Prenatal Testing: What Every Affiliate Should Know 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM, Fri, Mar 1, 2019 by Mark Leach and Stephanie Meredith Over the past year, prenatal testing labs have strongly lobbied ACOG Read more…