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Lauren Westerfield was born in Ohio and currently lives in Houston, TX. She received her B.S. in Psychology at Florida State University in 2007, and her M.S. in Genetic Counseling from the University of Pittsburgh in 2013. Her research interests surround improving the fetal diagnostic workup by addressing gaps in phenotyping, gene-disease associations and phenotype expansions, and sequencing interpretation. She works as a reproductive GC at Baylor College of Medicine, where she is the lead GC at the Texas Children’s Hospital Fetal Center and coordinator with the PrenatalSEQ multi-center study for WES/WGS of fetuses with congenital anomalies.