Genetic Counselor
Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Billie Lianoglou is a genetic counselor who specializes in prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapies for monogenic disease. Billie splits her time supporting the research of genetic specialists Dr. Mary Norton and Dr. Teresa Sparks as well as fetal surgeon Dr. Tippi MacKenzie at the UCSF Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine. With Dr. Norton and Dr. Sparks the research explores the value of prenatal genomic sequencing for fetal structural anomalies and complications such as non-immune hydrops fetalis.
Billie manages two UCSF registries, one of patients with ATM and the second of Lysosomal Diseases. Her work includes outreach and enrollment for fetal therapy clinical trials, including the current active PEARL clinical trial performing prenatal enzyme replacement therapy for lysosomal diseases.
Billie earned a master’s degree in genetic counseling from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
