Kristy Lee, MS, CGC

Kristy Lee is a Certified Genetic Counselor and Research Professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Ms. Lee received her undergraduate degree from North Carolina State University and a master’s degree in Genetic Counseling from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She specializes in genetic counseling for patients and their families with hereditary coagulopathies and inherited retinal disorders in adults and children. Her research interests involve examining the effectiveness and implementation of exome sequencing analysis and novel gene discovery for coagulopathies and retinal dystrophies, and actionability of secondary findings from exome/genome testing. She has been involved in multiple genome/exome studies analyzing the utility of exome sequencing as a clinical test, with specific focus on informed consent, molecular variant analysis and results disclosure of diagnostic and secondary findings. She also serves as a key liaison and molecular variant analyst on multiple retinal dystrophy and bleeding & clotting disorder expert panel groups for the ClinGen Resource, and she is a member of the ACMG Secondary Findings Working Group.