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Daniel Riconda, MS, CGC, is a certified genetic counselor and Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas who received his B.S. in Biochemistry from the State University of N.Y., at Stony Brook in 1985 and his M.S. in Genetic Counseling from Sarah Lawrence College in 1988. He obtained certification by the American Board of Medical Genetics in 1990 and became certified as a founding member of the American Board of Genetic Counseling in 1993. 

He is a certified Resolve Through Sharing (RTS) bereavement counselor. In February 2016, he joined the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at BCM and School of Health Professions to lead the coordination, design, and development of a Master of Science Genetic Counseling program and is now the serving as Program Director. Responsibilities include curriculum design, teaching, mentorship and program administration, among others. He has been serving as a project manager of Consultagene, an online tele-genetic counseling and educational resource at BCM, since 2016. 

He currently sees patients for cancer genetic counseling in the Adult Genetics Clinic at BCM. He has served as an At-Large Board member for the NSGC BOD (2015-2016). He has previously served as a member of that organization’s ethics committee, public affairs committee and co-chair of their subcommittee on licensure. He served a 5-year term (2002-2006) as an (elected) board member of the American Board of Genetic Counseling (and as chair of the Accreditation committee for 3 years), served as the program services committee chairperson for the Florida March of Dimes, and has served on both the Florida & Texas public affairs committees for the March of Dimes. 

In 2010, he was selected as one of nine-videotaped “Master Genetic Counselor’s” for training videos that were distributed to all of the Genetic Counseling training programs across North America. He has been actively involved in genetics education and licensure activities at the local, state and national level. He recently served as an invited member of the ASHG Membership Engagement Committee (2020-2023), is a member of the ACGC Standards Committee (2020-ongoing), and served on the Association of Genetic Counseling Program Directors (AGCPD) DEI Committee (from 2020-2022). 

In 2022 he received a Norton-Rose-Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award for Educational Leadership. Prior to joining Baylor, he developed and coordinated prenatal, pediatric, specialty clinics, and oncology related genetic counseling services at Winnie Palmer and Arnold Palmer Hospitals in Orlando, Florida for more than 2 decades. 

He currently serves on the Government Affairs and Advocacy Committee and Healthy Babies Are Worth the Weight Committee for the March of Dimes, Texas. I am also a co-PI for a sub-award related to the Advanced Research Training for Genetic Counselors (ART-GC) Consortium funded by the Warren Alpert Foundation (WAF) providing research training to practicing genetic counselors.