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Assistant Director, Masters in Genetic Counseling Program
Associate Director Advanced Research Training for Genetic Counselors Certificate Program
Perelman School of Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Hartman is the Assistant Director of the MSGC program and the Associate Director of the Advanced Research Training for Genetic Counselors Certificate Program. She is also the course instructor for GENC 6010 - Advanced Genetics and Genomics.

Dr. Hartman received a BS in Biology from the University of Akron and a PhD in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. After graduating Dr Hartman moved to Philadelphia to work as a PostDoc at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Over the next several years she worked on the bench doing basic research on human genetic diseases, stem cells, and cancer using cell culture, Drosophila, and mouse models. 

Dr. Hartman was promoted to Assistant Research Professor in 2014 and her lab focused on the role of cholesterol in Hedgehog signaling in pancreatic cancer. In 2017 she returned to school at Arcadia University to get a master’s degree in Genetic Counseling. After graduating in 2019 she joined the Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) where she directed the Research Core. She also saw pediatric patients with a wide variety of genetic conditions with a specialized focus on children with hearing loss. 

In 2023, Dr. Hartman joined the University of Pennsylvania Master’s in Genetic Counseling Program full time to direct the Advanced Research Training for Genetic Counselors Certificate Program, and in 2024 she became the Assistant Director of the master's program.