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Alyssa Rippert graduated from the Pennsylvania State University in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Psychology. She then attended the University of Cincinnati Genetic Counseling Program and graduated with a Master of Science in Medical Genetics in 2016. Alyssa has been a Genetic Counselor with the Division of Human Genetics and Division of Cardiology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia since 2016. As a member of the Cardiomyopathy Genetics Clinic, her research efforts have included characterizing rare genetic causes of cardiomyopathy, evaluating the diagnostic yield of comprehensive genetic testing in, and variant burden and outcomes in pediatric cardiomyopathy.  Her current research interests include outcomes and disease severity in RASopathies, particularly evaluating predictors of cardiac and neurodevelopmental outcomes and clinical severity scale development for Noonan syndrome.