Kristin Maloney, MS, MGC, CGC

Kristin Maloney, MS, MGC, CGC, is a board-certified genetic counselor and faculty member in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Nutrition and Program for Personalized Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM-SOM). Her current position involves clinical, research, and laboratory genetic counseling responsibilities. She has advised on study design, developed informed consent documents, and generated patient and provider information sheets for the Personalized Diabetes Medicine Project (PDMP) at the UM-SOM, and is involved in a project that is analyzing the psychosocial impact of a monogenic diabetes diagnosis and barriers patients have had obtaining this information. Kristin is a member of the ClinGen Monogenic Diabetes Expert Panel, where she curates genetic variants in common monogenic diabetes genes. She also provides pre- and post-test genetic counseling to PDMP study participants as well as adult patients in the UMMC Center for Genetics and Personalized Medicine. She co-authored a manuscript on genetic counseling for diabetes and is on the National Society of Genetic Counselors’ Practice Guidelines Committee for Monogenic Diabetes.