Community Health Webinar: Cystic Fibrosis: Dreams, Genes and Choices

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Dr Nicole Fen Bloom is a seconde Obstetrics and Gynecology resident at hackensac University Medical Center with a keen interest in Maternal Fetal Medicine she previously served as the co-chair of the Joma women's health committee where she dedicated herself to Community Education as a cystic fibrosis carrier Dr Dr Fen Bloom is a passionate advocate for early carrier screening for all recognizing its vital important importance in proactive Health Care following Dr Fen Bloom we will hear from Dr bachev maslo Who will be discussing the clinical aspects of carrier screening and fertility Dr bacheva maslo is a double board certified reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist practicing in New Jersey she has a passion for fertility education and a special interest in proactive fertility preservation for single women she lectures and writes on the intersection of Jewish life and production and is frequently called upon as an adviser for questions related to H following these presentations there will also be an opportunity for questions we ask that they are kept General and we will be answering those later Dr Fagen Bloom take it away hi everyone um thank you so much for coming to this um two-part event but this part specifically um it does mean a lot to me this is something that I've talked at length with um definitely my husband but um also my friends and family have been pretty open andon about this entire process um and I think it's really important to share what I've experienced and all the things that I've

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1. 1:00Dr Nicole Fen Bloom is a seconde Obstetrics and Gynecology resident at hackensac University Medical Center…
2. 6:56during our um like K and and kala classes like this is definitely something that we…
3. 13:15one hand there's dor sharim so dor sharim is I would say more common in the…
4. 19:37important and to be kind of identify and acknowledge if there's car if you're a carrier…
5. 26:03they test for um and now uh we have embryos or as I call them little…
6. 32:19they take a sample of tissue from the placenta um it's usually done like 11 to…
7. 38:08pgta is looking at millions and millions of base pairs when we do a probe for…
8. 44:36human reproduction we know that not every egg is going to mature not every egg will…
9. 51:03counselor and geneticist and genetic screening all of that like there are clinicians and providers that…
10. 57:27reduce risk right we're talking about risk like there's everything has a risk and a benefit…

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