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Jamie Peterson has been a clinical genetic counselor in the Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program (MMFP) at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia since 2018. He obtained his bachelor’s degree of science in biological chemistry in 2016 from Bates College and his master’s degree in genetic counseling from Arcadia University in 2018. He leads and coordinates the MMFP’s GC trainee clinical rotation schedule and has also been a biocurator for ClinGen Primary Mitochondrial Disease Gene Curation Expert Panel since 2021. His research interests lie in improving diagnostic testing options in primary mitochondrial disease to facilitate variant of uncertain significance (VUS) resolution.