Christina Flora

Licensed, board-certified Genetic Counselor and healthcare leader with 20+ years of experience in clinical genetics, rare disease therapeutics, program development and multidisciplinary care coordination.

Senior Genetic Counselor

Center for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy – HCM Center of Excellence

Genetic Counselor

Genetics and Metabolism

Hackensack University Medical Center- Hackensack, NJ

Senior Genetic Counselor / Program Coordinator

Genetics & Metabolism, Goryeb Children’s Hospital

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Personalized Genomic Medicine Program

Atlantic Health System – Morristown, NJ

Program Coordinator for Lysosomal Storage Disease & Therapeutic Genetics Program

Coordinator, Brineura Center of Excellence

Provided pediatric and adult genetic counseling

Led newborn screening follow-up for SMA and lysosomal storage diseases

Coordinated multidisciplinary care, enzyme replacement, chaperone and gene therapies and longitudinal follow-up and management

Served as Clinical Research Coordinator and Sub-Investigator on multiple rare disease trials

Birth Defects & Specialty Program Coordinator / Genetic Counselor

St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center – Paterson, NJ

Clinical Coordinator for:

Palestroni Birth Defects Center

Prader-Willi Syndrome Center

Neurofibromatosis Diagnostic & Treatment Program

Lysosomal Storage Disease Program

Built and operationalized multidisciplinary specialty programs from inception

Coordinated complex care for pediatric, adolescent, and adult patients

Organized medical education programs and annual symposia

Delivered lectures to healthcare professionals and community organizations

Pediatric genetic counselling

Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disorders (LEND)

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Healthcare Management

Western Governors University, Salt Lake City, UT

Master of Science, Genetic Counseling

Arcadia University, Glenside, PA

Bachelor of Arts, Degree with Distinction

Wells College, Aurora, NY

Individualized Major: Clinical Aspects of Biopsychology & Biochemistry