Director of Student Rotations
Assistant Professor – Emory Department of Human Genetics
Ms. Stanislaw received her Master's in Genetic Counseling from the University of South Carolina in 1994 and has been a board-certified genetic counselor for over 25 years. Her clinical practice has included prenatal, pediatric and adult general genetics, and cancer genetics, which has been her primary focus since joining Emory University in 2004.
In 2014, Ms. Stanislaw became the Director of Genetic Counseling for the Emory Winship Cancer Institute, where she leads a growing team that now includes six genetic counselors, two genetic counseling assistants, and a patient care coordinator that serves patients across five Emory campuses and at the Grady Cancer Center for Excellence. She has a strong interest in access to care and successfully obtained funding to develop a hereditary breast cancer genetic counseling and testing program for individuals served by the Grady Hospital System, Atlanta's public hospital system. She is also involved in clinical research on familial ALS as genetic counselor for the Pre-Symptomatic Familial ALS (Pre-fALS) Research Program through the University of Miami.
Ms. Stanislaw is past co-chair of the Georgia Cancer Genetics Network. She has served as an ACGC genetic counseling program site visitor and new program reviewer.
Ms. Stanislaw has been active in the Emory Genetic Counseling Training Program since its inception as an instructor, clinical supervisor, focus mentor, and member of the admissions committee. She was the Assistant Program Director until 2014 when she moved into a leadership role with the Emory Winship Cancer Institute. She teaches HGC 760 Genetics of Common Diseases and is a guest lecturer in other courses. In 2023, she rejoined the program leadership team as Director of Student Rotations. In this role, she coordinates and oversees clinical observations and rotation placements for all students. Ms. Stanislaw brings a wealth of experience to this role, with over 20 years of genetic counseling student supervision with students from multiple training programs.