Host Matt Burgess speaks with Dawn Allain, a genetic counsellor and leader at Ohio State University, about how genetic counselling has evolved. They discuss telehealth, mainstreaming of genetic testing, and how education and competency-based training must adapt for today’s genomic era. The episode also covers leadership and mentorship in the profession, specialty practice areas like imprinting disorders, and emerging topics such as pharmacogenomics and epigenetics — highlighting where the field has been and where it’s going.