Jennie Vagher, CGC

Jennie Vagher is a board-certified genetic counselor who graduated from the University of Utah’s Genetics Program in Genetic Counseling. She joined the Family Cancer Assessment Clinic at Huntsman Cancer Institute in 2017. She lead the development of the pediatric Bone Marrow Failure program and the adult Bone Marrow Failure program for patients with inherited Bone Marrow Failure syndromes and other predispositions to hematologic malignancies. She provides genetic counseling services to patients across Utah, including those seen at Primary Children's Hospital and at LDS Hospital. She has specific interests in the management of telomere biology disorders and has a relationship with the Division of Pulmonology at University of Utah to provide genetic evaluation to patients with interstitial lung diseases. She also has specific interests in pediatric cancer predispositions, with expertise in Li-Fraumeni syndrome and DICER1 syndrome. She is an expert in rare cancer predisposition syndromes.

She works closely with Dr. Luke Maese and Dr. Joshua Schiffman in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Dr. Mary Beth Scholand in the Division of Pulmonology, and Dr. Srinivas Tantravahi and Dr. Charles Parker in Adult Hematology.