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Whitney F. Espinel, CGC, MS

Languages spoken: English
  • Whitney Espinel is a board-certified genetic counselor with a master’s degree in human genetics and genetic counseling from Emory University and a bachelors and master's degree from Brigham Young University in psychology. She joined Huntsman Cancer Institute in 2016. She specializes in assessing genetic risk factors for breast and ovarian cancer in individuals and families. She currently works in Huntsman Cancer Institute's High Risk Breast Cancer Clinic where she helps follow women with genetic mutations including BRCA1/2, ATM, CHEK2, PALB2. She also works on multiple research projects aimed at expanding genetic risk assessment into new populations as well as comparing somatic and germline test results in oncology patients.

    Specialties

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Internal Medicine - Adjunct
    Huntsman Cancer Institute - Midlevel
    Population Health Sciences - Adjunct
    Academic Divisions Oncology
  • Whitney Espinel is a board-certified genetic counselor with a master’s degree in human genetics and genetic counseling from Emory University and a bachelors and master's degree from Brigham Young University in psychology. She joined Huntsman Cancer Institute in 2016. She specializes in assessing genetic risk factors for breast and ovarian cancer in individuals and families. She currently works in Huntsman Cancer Institute's High Risk Breast Cancer Clinic where she helps follow women with genetic mutations including BRCA1/2, ATM, CHEK2, PALB2. She also works on multiple research projects aimed at expanding genetic risk assessment into new populations as well as comparing somatic and germline test results in oncology patients.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Internal Medicine -Adjunct
    Huntsman Cancer Institute -Midlevel
    Population Health Sciences -Adjunct
    Academic Divisions Oncology

    Research interests

    • BRCA1/2 (Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome)
    • Breast Cancer Genetics
    • Cancer Genetics
    • Cancer Clinical Genetics Communication