Andy Faucett, MS, LGC

Andy Faucett is a semi-retired Professor at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (GCSOM) currently assisting with the development of a new master’s degree genetic counseling program and a member and Chair of the Geisinger Institutional Review Board (IRB). He is licensed as a genetic counselor in Pennsylvania.

Andy began his professional career at Baylor College of Medicine as a genetic counselor working with the team developing one of the first MSAFP testing protocols for chromosome abnormalities. He was a clinical genetic counselor in Savannah, Georgia from 1989 to 1999. In 2000 he began a fellowship at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His work at the CDC focused on the oversight of genetic testing and healthcare provider education. In 2004 he joined the faculty at Emory University; continued to work with the CDC; helped launch one of the first online patient registries collecting patient reported data; and spearheaded the development of the Emory genetic counseling master’s degree program. In 2011 he moved to Geisinger to recruit a nationally recognized team of research and clinical genetic counselors. His research focused on genetic testing; informed consent for genetic testing; informed consent for genetic research that includes exome sequencing; and the return of medically actionable results to research participants. He led the expansion of the MyCode Community Health Initiative into one of the largest health system-based population genetic studies. He led the recruitment of participants into the initial DETECT study at Geisinger.