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Deadline - January 15, 2010

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	Fall 2009 Genetic Counsellor in the Spotlight: Myra Micek, MS   Senior Genetic Counsellor Medical Genetics Victoria General Hospital

As I look back on 31 years as a genetic counsellor, I have much to reflect on.  My interest in genetics began while I was an undergraduate at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.  I took an extra year as an undergraduate to obtain an Honors B.Sc. in Genetics.  During that time, for two summers I worked in a Cytogenetics lab, before the days of banded chromosomes!  The director of the lab was Dr. Peter Bowen, who became my first mentor.  He encouraged me to apply to Ph D. programs in the States, which at the time seemed to be the logical next step in pursuing my interest in genetics.  I was accepted into a Ph D. program in Chapel Hill, at the University of North Carolina.  I was working in immunogenetics and after a year realized I was not happy with the direction I had taken.