As a certified genetic counselor, I work as the research coordinator for the study of breast and ovarian cancer in families at the King Laboratory, where I oversee the enrollment and genetic testing process for all eligible families at high risk of inherited breast and ovarian cancer. These activities include helping identify possible research families, facilitating with referring doctors and medical centers, and providing supportive, comprehensive pre- and post-test cancer genetic counseling for participants. As coordinator of the New York Breast Cancer Study, I served as the primary contact for the 13 collaborating medical centers, trained and oversaw genetic counseling graduate students who served as research assistants, and ran the laboratory where I extracted DNA from all blood samples enrolled in the study before they were sent to the University of Washington for mutation analysis, from which the research findings were published in Science. I am active in the overall genetic counseling community, speaking at conferences and writing articles, and is the current editor for Perspectives in Genetic Counseling, the international newsletter for the National Society of Genetic Counselors. If you are interested in participating in our studies, please contact me for information on enrolling families in breast cancer research at the King lab: ph 540-389-5328, fax 540-389-5329, jmandell@slc.edu.