New York State Clinical Geneticists and Genetic Counselors: Cancer Genetics
* = known to provide genetic counseling on a zero-based sliding fee scale or make other special financial arrangements
Niagara Region (Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming counties)
- *Howard J. Allen Counseling Services
1417 Eden Road
P.O. Box 623
North Collins, NY 14111
Howard J. Allen, PhD
Phone: (716) 337-3092 - *Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Clinical Genetics Service
Elm and Carlton Streets
Buffalo, NY 14263 0001
Director: Carolyn D. Farrell, CNP, MS, CGC
Genetic counselors: Mollie Hutton and Heidi Vance
Phone: (716) 845-8400 - *Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo
Division of Genetics
140 Hodge Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222
Chief: Richard W. Erbe, MD
Genetic Counselors: Laura Tripi and Sally Janes
Phone: (716) 878-7530
Finger Lakes Region (Chemung, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne, and Yates counties)
- *University of Rochester School of Medicine/Strong Memorial Hospital
Department of Medicine, Division of Genetics
Rochester Regional Genetics Program, Box 641
Rochester, NY 14642
Director: Chin-To Fong, MD
Genetic Counselors: Jessica Salamone, MS, CGC, Erin Lagoe, MS, CGC and Lauren Smith, MS, CGC
Phone: (585) 275-3461
Central Region (Cayuga, Cortland, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, St. Lawrence, and Tompkins counties)
- GYN Oncology of CNY, PC
Suite 400
5008 Brittonfield Parkway
East Syracuse, NY 13057
Mary J. Cunningham, MD
Phone: (315) 634-4112 - *SUNY University Hospital
Regional Genetics Program
750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
Bonnie Braddock, MPH, CGC
Phone: (315) 464-4842
Southern Tier, Mohawk Valley and North Country (Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Cortland, Franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Madison, Montgomery, Otsego, Oneida, St. Lawrence, Sullivan, Schoharie, Tioga, and Tompkins counties)
- *Binghamton Genetic Counseling Program
Ferre Institute
124 Front Street
Binghamton, NY 13905
Project Director: Luba Djurdjinovic, MS
Genetic Counselors: Luba Djurdjinovic (sees cancer genetics clients from North Country), Erin Houghton (sees cancer genetics clients from Mohawk Valley) and Lindsey Morse (sees cancer genetics clients from Binghamton)
Phone: (607) 724-4308 or (888) 483-3773 - Vermont Regional Genetics Center (specific for Warren, Hamilton, Essex, Clinton, Franklin and St. Lawrence counties)
112 Colchester Avenue
Burlington, VT 05401
Genetic Counselor: Wendy McKinnon, MS, CGC
Phone: (802) 847-4073 or (802) 847-5868
Capital District Region (Albany, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Montgomery, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren, and Washington counties)
The Binghamton Genetic Counseling Program periodically travels to the Albany/Schenectady area to see clients at Ellis and St. Peter's Hospitals. Please call the phone number listed above to schedule an appointment.
Hudson Valley Region (Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester counties)
- Dickstein Cancer Treatment Center
White Plains Hospital
Davis Avenue East Post Road
White Plains, NY 10601
Peggy J. Cottrell, MS
Phone: (914) 681-2873 - Fishkill Radiation Oncology Center
200 Westage Business Center Drive
Fishkill, NY 12524
Kelli M. Mayfarth, MS
Phone: (845)-483-6641 - Putnam Hospital Center
Oncology Department, 3rd Floor
670 Stoneleigh Avenue
Carmel, NY 10512
Kelli M. Mayfarth, MS
Phone: (845) 483-6641 - *Regional Medical Genetics Center, Inc.
19 Bradhurst Avenue
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Director: Lawrence R. Shapiro, MD
Phone: (914) 593-8900 - *Vassar Brothers Medical Center
Dyson Center, 2nd Floor
45 Reade Place
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Kelli M. Mayfarth, MS
Phone: (845) 483-6641
New York City (The Bronx/Bronx County)
- *Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center
234 East 149th Street
Bronx, NY 10451
Director, Medical Genetics: Ernest Lieber, MD
Genetic Counselor: Adee Pintzov
Phone: (718) 579-5295 - *Montefiore Medical Center, Institute for Women's Health
1695 Eastchester Road, Suite 301
Bronx, NY 10461
Director: Susan Klugman, MD
Genetic Counselor: Myrna Ben-Yishay
Phone: (718) 405-8150 - *Jacobi Medical Center
1400 Pelham Parkway South
Bldg. 8, 3B-160
Bronx, NY 10461
Genetic Counselors: Jessica L. Giordano, MS, Janelle McCarthy, MS
Director: Susan Gross, MD
Phone: (718) 918-4908 - *North Central Bronx Hospital
3424 Kossuth Avenue
Bronx, NY 10467
(same staff as Jacobi)
Phone: (718) 519-3740
New York City (Brooklyn/Kings County)
- *The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Division of Genetics in Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology
121 DeKalb Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Director: Fred Gilbert, MD
Phone: (718) 250-8032 - Maimonides Cancer Center
6300 Eighth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 12220
Genetic Counselor: Sarah Bradley, MS
Phone: (718) 765-2547 - *New York Methodist Hospital
506 Sixth Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Clinical Geneticist: Karen David, MD
Phone: (718) 780-5256
New York City (Manhattan/New York County)
- *Beth Israel Medical Center
PACC (Phillips Ambulatory Care Center)
10 Union Square East, Suite 403
New York, NY 10003
Cancer Genetic Counselor: Karen Ott
Phone: (212) 844-8959 or (212) 844-6285 - *Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Division of Gynecologic Oncology
Herbert Irving Pavilion, 8th floor
161 Ft. Washington Avenue
New York, NY 10032
Thomas J. Herzog, M.D
Phone: (212) 305-3410 - *Harlem Hospital
135th Street at Lenox Avenue, Suite 6146
New York, NY 10037
Geneticist: Nelly Jouayed, MD
Phone: (212) 939-1701 - Office of Matthew B. Lubin, MD
791 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Phone: 877-436-3763 - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Clinical Genetics Lower Level One
222 East 70th Street
New York, NY 10021
Kenneth Offit, MD, Mark Robson, MD and Noah Kauff, MD
Genetic Counselors: Emily Glogowski, Yelena Kemel, Beth Siegel, Sherry Boyar and Sara Spencer
Phone: (212) 434-5149 - *Metropolitan Hospital Center
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Genetics
1901 First Avenue
New York, NY 10029
Director: Karen L. David, MD
Phone: (212) 423-6452 - *Mount Sinai Medical Center
Department of Human Genetics
One Gustave L. Levy Place
Box 1497
New York, NY 10029
Director: Judith P. Willner, MD
Genetic Counselor: Karen Brown, MS, CGC [Claire Davis, Jessica Rowse & Andrea Forman]
Phone: (212) 241-6947 - *New York Presbyterian Hospital – Columbia University – greater NYC area
Cancer Genetics Program
177 Fort Washington Avenue
Milstein Building 9GN-421
New York, NY 10032
Cancer GCs: Donna Russo and Mary Kay Dabney (genetic counseling available in Spanish)
Phone: (212) 305-3701 - New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill/Cornell Division
*Human Genetics Division
505 E. 70th Street, 3rd Floor, Box 128
New York, NY 10021
Director: Fred Gilbert, MD & Jessica Davis, MD
Genetic Counselors: Pooja Mohan, MS; Eriskay Liston, MS
Phone: (646) 962-2205 - GI Genetics Service
Department of Genetic Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
1305 York Avenue, Fourth Floor
New York, NY 10021
Director: Steven Lipkin, MD, PhD
Genetic Counselor: Ann Carlson, MS, CGC
Phone: (646) 962-4700 - *New York University Medical Center
Human Genetics Program
550 First Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Genetic Counselor: Elsa Reich, MS
Phone: (212) 263-5746 - NYU Clinical Cancer Center
160 E. 34th Street, Room 434
New York, NY 10016
Genetic Counselor: Rebecca Yee, MS, CGC
Phone: (212) 731-5104 - *Office of Dr. Elizabeth A. Poynor
1050 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028
Elizabeth A. Poynor, M.D., Ph.D., FACOG
Phone: (212) 426-2700 - *St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
425 West 59th Street
Suite 7A
New York, NY 10019
Cancer Genetic Counselor: Karen Ott
Phone: (212) 523-7500 or (212) 523-7092 - *Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers of New York, Manhattan Region
O'Toole Building, Suite 509
36 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10011
Cancer Genetic Counselor: Mary Miller, MS
Phone: (212) 604-7835 - *Weill Cornell Breast Center
425 East 61st, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10021
Phone: (212) 821-0830
Shivani Nazareth, M.S.
New York City (Queens/Queens County)
- *City Hospital Center at Elmhurst
Department of Pediatrics, E9-1
79-01 Broadway
Elmhurst, NY 11373
Clinical Geneticist: Sara Kaffe, MD
Cancer Genetic Counselor: Amisha Shah
Phone: (718) 334-5510/5199 - *New York Hospital Queens: New York - Presbyterian Healthcare System
The Breast Center
56-26 Main Street
Flushing, NY 11355
Genetic Counselor: Kayon T. Williams, MS, CGC
Phone: (718) 670-2110 - *North Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Schneider Children's Hospital
269-01 76th Avenue
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Director: Joyce E. Fox, MD
GCs: Donna Blumenthal
Phone: (718) 470-3010 - *Queens Hospital Center
82-68th 164th Street
Jamaica, NY 11432
Medical Geneticist: Sara Kaffe, MD
Phone: (718) 883-4676
New York City (Staten Island/Richmond County)
- *Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities
1050 Forest Hill Road
Staten Island, NY 10314
Director: Milen Velinov, MD
Genetic Counselor: Nancy Zellers, MS [sees patients at Nalitt Institute for Cancer at Staten Island University Hospital]
Phone: (718) 494-5221
Long Island Region (Nassau and Suffolk Counties)
- Academic Health Care Center
New York College of Osteopathic Medicine at NYIT
Northern Boulevard, Riland Center
Old Westbury, NY 11568
Clinical Geneticist: David Tegay, DO, FACMG
Phone: (516) 686-1300 - *Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center
1000 Montauk Highway
West Islip, NY 11795
Diana Moglia, MS, CGC
Phone: (631) 376-4050 - *Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Department Obstetrics and Gynecology
Suite 1100
27005 Seventy-Sixth Avenue
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
David Smotkin , M.D. , Ph.D.
Phone: (718) 470-7660 - *Nassau University Medical Center
2201 Hempstead Turnpike
East Meadow, NY 11554
Clinical Geneticist: Jack Sherman, M.D., FAAP, FACMG
Genetic Counselor: Vivien Diaz-Barrios, MS, MPH
Phone: (516) 572-6166
Resource for Spanish-speaking patients from around the state - *North Shore University Hospital
Monter Cancer Center
450 Lakeville Rd
Lake Success, NY 11042
Cancer Genetic Counselor: Sharona Cohen, MS
Phone: (516) 734-8850 - *Southampton Hospital240 Meetinghouse Lane
Southampton, NY 11968
Genetic Counselor: Emily Smith, MS
Phone: (631) 377-3477 - *Stony Brook University Hospital
Health Sciences Center
Genetics Division, Department of Pediatrics, Suite 8
University Hospital
Stony Brook, NY 11790
Dr. Patricia Galvin-Parton
Phone: (631) 444-5437 - The Genetics Center, Inc.
48 Route 25A, Suite 205
Smithtown, NY 11787
Medical Director: David Hyman, MD
Phone: (631) 862-3620 - *Winthrop University Hospital , Genetics Division
120 Mineola Boulevard, Suite 210
Mineola, NY 11501
Director: Moris Angulo, MD
Genetic Counselor: Monika Zak-Aptekar, MS
Phone: (516) 663-2657
Please Note: If you are a geneticist or genetic counselor practicing in New York State and would like to appear on this list, please contact Karen Greendale at (518) 474-1222 or email Karen at kxg03@health.state.ny.us with your information.