Jana Klein, M.S., CGC

Jana Klein’s genetic counseling experience and interests are diverse and range from a strong patient care background in obstetric genetics and neurology to web-based medical writing within the healthcare industry. 

Jana received an undergraduate degree in biology and society from Cornell University and a Master of Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She began her genetics career at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1989, where one of the first common disease genetic counseling programs was created, GenRisk.

Jana has a strong interest in neurogenetics and co-founded the Neurofibromatosis Center at Cedars-Sinai. She served as the principal genetic counselor on the center’s NIH grant-funded Neurofibromatosis Type II Project, where she published numerous scientific articles on the subject.  She then moved back to the Bay Area and continued her career at California Pacific Medical Center as a genetic counselor in prenatal, muscular dystrophy, ALS and Huntington disease centers. 

Jana has a strong interest in medical writing and has written extensively for both scientific journals and patient materials.
 
Since 2002, she has served as a genetics consultant for a Bay Area-based stem cell banking company and to provide such consulting expertise as well as direct patient care with a large radiology group in San Mateo, California. Jana received her board certification in 1990. 

She lives in San Francisco with her husband and their 7-year old twins.