Lenox Hill Hospital/Northwell Health
Elinor Langfelder-Schwind, MS, CGC is the Senior Genetic Counselor at The Cystic Fibrosis Center, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY. Elinor has devoted her career to working with adult and pediatric patients as a genetic counselor in accredited cystic fibrosis (CF) care centers in New York City, including St. Vincent's Hospital, Mount Sinai, and Northwell Health/Lenox Hill Hospital. Elinor is an active participant in the New York State CF newborn screening consortium, National Society of Genetic Counselors’ CFTR Spectrum Disorders Special Interest Group, and first author of the NSGC Practice Resource on CF screening. She is involved with CFTR gene modulation and other research studies about the care and treatment of people with CF. Elinor educates genetic counseling students from Sarah Lawrence College and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as a clinical training site coordinator, thesis advisor, and lecturer. Elinor has been an advocate of educating patients, professionals and the public about CF newborn screening for over two decades. She recently served as principal investigator of a CF Foundation-funded screening improvement project which led to the development of CFF-endorsed consensus recommendations to improve access to genetic counseling for parents of infants with a positive CF newborn screening result. Currently, Elinor is leading a multi-site stakeholder assessment project to investigate feasibility of providing expert CF genetic counseling via telehealth.
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
3:00 PM – 7:00 PM MST
DG11--Genetics & Genetic Counseling for CF
Thursday, November 2, 2023
7:15 AM – 9:15 AM MST