2025-2026 GCPG Officers
Andria Besser, MS, CGC, Chair:
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Andria Besser is a board-certified genetic counselor, Director of Reproductive Genetics at the NYU Langone Fertility Center, and Clinical Instructor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She has specialized in assisted reproductive technologies (particularly preimplantation genetic testing) for over 15 years, with experience in both IVF clinic and PGT lab settings. She has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications, committee opinions, and abstracts, and is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences. Andria is passionate about integrating genetic counselors into all aspects of reproductive medicine, addressing the issue of underutilization of GCs in fertility clinics, and increasing GC presence throughout ASRM. |
Katie Rembisz, M.S., CGC, Chair Elect:
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Katie is a certified genetic counselor specializing in preimplantation genetic testing. She received a Master of Science in Genetic Counseling from Northwestern University and began her career in cancer and adult genetics. Excited by the rapidly evolving field of ART, Katie switched specialties and joined the genetic counseling team at Igenomix. In this role, she provides counseling for patients pursuing testing through Igenomix, primarily focusing on PGT-M and PGT-A/SR. Katie also serves as a clinical resource for ordering providers and other healthcare professionals. She enjoys creating educational materials for both patients and clinicians, including results guides and scientific webinars. Katie is a member of the literature review committee for the National Society of Genetic Counselors ART/ Infertility SIG, and the Scientific Program Planning Committee for the ASRM GCPG. She serves as an ancillary faculty member for the Northwestern Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling and is passionate about incorporating PGT into genetic counseling training. Her professional interests include pre-test education and collaboration with non-genetics providers. |
Anthony Porto, MS, CGC, Vice Chair:
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Anthony Porto is a certified genetic counselor and graduated from Northwestern’s genetic counseling program in March 2020. He currently works at Illume Fertility, a private IVF practice in Connecticut and New York which he has been with since May of 2021. In this role Anthony meets with patients for a number of issues, mostly but not exclusively related to infertility and the IVF process. These topics include reviewing carrier screening results, discussing both the process and possible labs for PGT-M for patients at risk of having a child with a genetic condition, discussing abnormal karyotype results and the possibility of PGT-SR, reviewing PGT-A results including discussion of both mosaic and segmental aneuploid embryos, discussing using a sperm donor and guiding women through this process and the selection of a donor, meeting with egg donors to collect a thorough family history and evaluate their ability to be a quality egg donor, meeting with intended parents planning to use an egg donor to ensure they are genetically a good match and to review any issues in the egg donor’s family history, and meeting with couples hoping to donate their embryos to collect a thorough family history to name a few. He is also highly involved in the decisions for what routine testing the practice uses, such as PGT-A, and what carrier screening panels should be ordered given the patient’s treatment plan. |
Sally Rodriguez, ScM, CGC, Secretary-Treasurer:
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Sally Rodríguez is a licensed and board-certified genetic counselor with over 12 years of experience in the area of reproductive genetics. Sally was an early-stage employee at Recombine, a genetic testing laboratory, and developed and managed the lab’s ECS and NIPS offerings through the company’s acquisition by CooperSurgical. She has been at Sequence46, a PGT laboratory, since 2018 and currently serves as the Director of Laboratory Genetic Services. She received her Bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology from Princeton University in 2009 and her Master's degree in Genetic Counseling from The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2013.
Throughout her career, Sally has given numerous presentations at professional meetings on a variety of reproductive topics, including the genetics of recurrent pregnancy loss, expanded carrier screening in the general patient population and gamete donors, the utility of genetic testing in the fertility setting, and healthcare disparities within prenatal genetics. Sally has also co-authored numerous abstracts and publications within the field on a variety of topics, including carrier screening, genetic ancestry, genetic telecounseling, the patient experience, genetic health literacy, noninvasive PGT-A, and more. She is passionate about equity, especially in healthcare, and is a former member of NSGC's J.E.D.I. Committee and a current member of ACGC’s DEIJ Committee. With a personal history of infertility and IVF, Sally hopes to help reduce shame and stigma around infertility diagnoses and care through professional and personal work. Currently, she serves as a peer counselor for a RESOLVE support group
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Dina Nusblat, MS, CGC, Past Chair:
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Dina Nusblat is a lead laboratory genetic counselor with CooperGenomics, a CooperSurgical Company. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of Delaware and her master’s in genetic counseling from Arcadia University. She has been practicing as a genetic counselor specializing in PGT for over seven years with her primary focus being PGT-M. Dina has authored numerous abstracts and presentations focusing on PGT.
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