Cancer Health Beliefs and Cascade Genetic Testing in Asian Americans
Dr. Jennifer Young is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Social Science at Feinberg School of Medicine. She is a trained Marriage and Family Therapist and a researcher specializing in the Ethical, Legal, Social Implications (ELSI) of genetics and genomics. She has a Ph.D. in Family Science from the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health. She also holds master's degrees in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Maryland and in East Asian Languages and Literature from The Ohio State University. During her Ph.D. program, Dr. Young completed a predoctoral fellowship in the Clinical Genetics Branch at NCI where she studied family resilience and couple coping in the context of hereditary cancer syndromes. Dr. Young went on to Stanford University for a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.
Currently, Dr. Young is a member of the Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern and the director for psychosocial research and education for the Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling. Her research program focuses on communication of genetic risk within culturally diverse families, cascade genetic testing, increasing access to genetic services, and intra-family relationships related to genetics and psychosocial outcomes.