Academic year 2022

Swiss Postgraduate Training Program FMH/FAMH in Medical Genetics 2022

Location
Course 1 & 2 (21.01.2022 & 18.02.2022) - online via Zoom

Course 3 - 10
Welle 7
Schanzenstrasse 5
3008 Bern

Programme Course 1 – 21.01.2022 - NEW ONLINE

10:00-11:00 Claudine Rieubland Introduction to the genetics consultation
11:00-12:30 Viviane Cina  Genetic counselling, practical aspects
13:30-15:00 Deborah Hersch Psychological aspects of the genetics consultation
15:30-17:00 Stylianos Antonarakis Nature and consequences of mutations/nomenclature

 

Programme Course 2 – 18.02.2022 - NEW ONLINE

10:00-12:00 Frédérique Sloan-Bena Cytogenetics-/genomics I: Technical aspects *
13:00-15:00 Isabel Filges  Cytogenetics-/genomics II: Clinical applications *
15:30-16:30 Deborah Bartholdi Preimplantation genetic screening and diagnosis

 

Programme Course 3 – 18.03.2022

10:00-12:00 Jean-Louis Blouin       Molecular genetics- methods, risk calculations, NGS basics
13:00-14:30 Béryl Royer-Bertrand  Bioinformatics, Interpretation of variants/ Genomic databases
15:00-16:30 Emmanuelle Ranza NGS in the clinics

 

Programme Course 4 – 22.04.2022

10:00-12:00 Anita Rauch      Introduction in clinical dysmorphology and genetic syndromes
13:00-15:00 Christiane Zweier  Genetics of intellectual disability
15:30-17:00 Marc Abramowicz Personalized and precision genomic medicine

 

Programme Course 5 – 20.05.2022

 10:00-11:30 Andrea Superti-Furga  Bone dysplasias and connective tissues disorders
11:30-12:30 Elisabeth Saller   Hemoglobinopathies
13:30-15:00  Andre Schaller      Mitochondrial disorders
15:30-17:00 Ariane Giacobino Epigenetics, Infertility

 

Programme Course 6 – 17.06.2022

10:00-11:30 Jean-Marc Good Neurogenetics 
11:30-12:30  Viviane Cina   Presymptomatic genetic testing
13:30-15:00  Wolfgang Berger     Ophthalmogenetics        
15:30-17:00 Ruxandra Bachmann   Nephrogenetics

 

Programme Course 7 - 16.09.2022

10:00-12:00 Benno Röthlisberger Cancer predisposition I: Breast Cancer - clinical and molecular insights
13:00-15:00  Sheila Unger Rare cancer syndromes
15:30-17:00  Karl Heinimann

Cancer predisposition II: Gastrointestinal tumors - clinical and molecular insights 

 

Programme Course 8 - 21.10.2022

10:00-11:30 Marianne Rohrbach Metabolic diseases, newborn screening
11:30-12:30  Urs Meyer    Pharmacogenomics
13:30-15:00  Loredana D'Amato Sizonenko     Rare diseases and the state of the art in Switzerland   
15:30-17:00 Sven Cichon   Genetics of complex traits

 

 

Programme Course 9 - 18.11.2022

10:00-12:00 Heidi Fodstad     Whole genome sequencing – perspectives for diagnostic application 
13:00-14:30 Jacqueline Schoumans    Cytogenetics in onco-hematology
15:00-16:30 Ilaria Scarpelli                   Molecular genetics in onco-hematology

 

Programme Course 10 - 16.12.2022

10:00-12:00 Alexandre Reymond         Blurring the boundaries between rare and common diseases     
13:00-14:30 Rouven Porz                    Ethics in medical genetics
14:30-16:30 Siv Fokstuen Cardiogenetics