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| The Victor Outreach and Screening Program for Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Diseases at Tufts Medical Center was established at the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center through a generous philanthropic gift from Lois Victor, in partnership with the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network of Philadelphia, PA.
The Victor Program was founded to provide education, outreach and screening for the prevention of devastating genetic diseases carried at increased frequencies among members of the Ashkenazi Jewish population. The program provide education in the community and at college and graduate school campuses, where screening drives promote awareness and provide testing for Jewish students. |
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Jodi D. Hoffman, MD, FACMG Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Genetics and the Director of the Victor Outreach and Screening Program for Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Diseases at Tufts Medical Center. She received her medical degree at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. There she published an article on screening and testing for Jewish Genetic Diseases. Dr. Hoffman then completed a Pediatric residency at Yale Children’s Hospital in New Haven. Dr. Hoffman’s Medical Genetics fellowship was completed at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where she developed special interests in Connective Tissue Disorders, Kabuki syndrome, and the 22q11.2 syndrome. At Tufts Medical Center, in addition to the Victor Program and general medical genetics, Dr. Hoffman is intimately involved with the development of the Cancer Prevention Program, an interdisciplinary approach to caring for families with inherited susceptibility to cancer. |
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