Webinar Details
Title: The Role of Genetic Counselors on the Pompe Disease Care Team
Date: Monday, June 9, 2025
Time: 2 PM CT / 3 PM ET
Speaker:
Erin Huggins, MS, CGC
Webinar Overview:
This webinar focuses on a unique type of clinician: the genetic counselor. Genetic counselors are specially trained providers that can have an important role on your care management team. In this webinar, we’ll describe who genetic counselors are, what they do, and how they can help you and your family navigate a diagnosis of Pompe disease. At the end of the webinar, there will be a Q&A session with the speaker, a board-certified genetic counselor with several years of experience in caring for individuals with Pompe disease.
If you’d like to connect with a genetic counselor near you, we encourage you to visit the National Society of Genetic Counselors’ “Find a Counselor” tool:
https://findageneticcounselor.nsgc.org
Speaker Biography
Erin Huggins, MS, CGC
Board-certified Genetic Counselor, Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center
Erin Huggins is a board-certified genetics counselor in Durham, NC, USA. She received her B.S. in Biology from Coastal Carolina University in 2016 and her M.S. in Genetic Counseling from the University of South Carolina in 2018. From 2019-2024, Erin was a member of Dr. Priya Kishnani’s Pompe Disease Clinical and Research Team at Duke University, where she participated in numerous research activities related to lysosomal and glycogen storage diseases, with her primary interests in newborn screening for Pompe disease and clinical variant interpretation. In addition to her research role, Erin provided clinical genetic counseling for patients across the lifespan with a variety of inherited metabolic disorders. In 2024, Erin stepped down from her role on Dr. Kishnani’s team to pursue her PhD in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke University, where she continues to contribute to research related to Pompe disease.