Dr. Jehannine Austin is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, a Research Scientist at the BC Mental Health and Addictions Institute, http://www.bcmhari.ca/faculty/austin-jehannine.php, and graduate advisor for the UBC Genetic Counseling program. She talks about her career and her experience with family caregiving. She describes her work in genetic counseling and explains the purposes of genetic counseling. She describes how a strong family history of breast cancer becomes a worrisome family history, and highlights the various challenges for in
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