Information for HGANJ Members
Meetings - General Information
Bylaws (available for download)
HGANJ Meetings - General Information
HGANJ holds three meetings per year in January, May and September on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at Saint Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ. An agenda for each meeting is e-mailed to members of HGANJ prior to each meeting and posted on the main page of this website. A general timeline for these meetings is as follows:
10:00 am - Executive Committee meeting
11:15 am - Concurrent committee meetings (Education, Legislative, Website, Clinical Practice)
12:15 pm - Lunch (provided)
1:00 pm - General membership meeting
2:00 pm - Lecture
3:15 pm - Case presentation
4:00 pm - Adjournment
Continuing education units (CEU's) for genetic counselors are available for most meetings for a fee ($25 for members, additional $20 administrative fee for non-members). Please contact us with questions regarding CEU's. (Contact information)
For driving directions to Saint Peter's University Hospital: http://www.saintpetersuh.com/PatientsandVisitors/MapsandDirections/. The meetings are usually held in the Medical Office Building (MOB) conference rooms 4 & 5 (located in the main lobby across from the gift shop and behind the information desk).
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Clinical Case Presentation |
| January 8, 2008 | Mark Lyles, MD | The Science Behind Pharmacological Chaperones | UMDNJ-Newark |
| May 13, 2008 | Full-Day Educational Conference @ NJ Hospital Association in Princeton, NJ | Genetics in Primary Care Medicine | N/A |
| September 9, 2008 | Courtney Sill, PhD | Coriell Institute - From Cell Repositories to Personalized Medicine | UMDNJ-RWJMS |
| January 13, 2009 | Shelly Gunn, MD, PhD | Genome Scanning by Array CGH as a Clinical Tool in Human Genetics | Morristown Memorial Hospital / Atlantic MFM |
| May 12, 2009 | Gokce A. Toruner, MD, PhD | Diagnostic Genetics Testing for Autism Spectrum Disorders | TBA |
| September 8, 2009 | Erynn Gordon, MS, CGC | Emerging Issues in Personalized Medicine: The Coriell Personalized Medicine Experience | Cooper University Hospital / Cancer Genetics |
Annual membership dues are $40.00, payable by check to "HGANJ," and are collected by the current Treasurer every January. Please contact our current Treasurer with questions. (Contact information)
Our bylaws are available for download in Adobe Acrobat pdf format (click here).