Alison Elliott

Alison M. Elliott is a PhD geneticist and board certified genetic counsellor and tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia. She is also an Investigator at BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital Research Institutes. She is Associate Director, Research for the UBC MSc Genetic Counselling Program. She obtained her BSc Hons at Queen’s University, her MS in Genetic Counselling at the University of Cincinnati, and her PhD from the University of Manitoba. Her research program includes rare disease, genomics, genetic counselling and health implementation science. She led precision health initiatives in the pediatric and neonatal divisions at BC Children’s and Women’s Hospitals and is the Project Lead for the Genome Canada Large-Scale Applied Research Project grant “GenCOUNSEL – Optimization of Genetic counselling with implementation of genome-wide sequencing” – the largest research genetic counselling grant ever funded (bcchr.ca/GENCOUNSEL). In 2018 Alison was awarded the Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors (CAGC) Professional Practice, Innovation and Advocacy Leadership national award.