Marina Dutra-Clarke, MS, CGC

Marina Dutra-Clarke is a genetic counselor board certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling and licensed in California. Her clinical interests include hearing loss, hereditary kidney conditions, chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, neurodevelopmental disorders, hereditary cancer predisposition, and rare and ultra-rare disorders. Before joining Providence, she spent six years at UCLA providing genetic counseling services to both pediatric and adult populations with rare disease. She also served as a lecturer and clinical supervisor of the UCLA Master of Science in Genetic Counseling Program. She has a professional interest in genetic test interpretation and serves as a biocurator on the ClinGen Hearing Loss Variant Curation Expert Panel. Additionally, she is the co-chair of the National Society of Genetic Counselors Ophthalmology and Hearing Loss Special Interest Group. Marina is also passionate about improving patient access to clinical genetics services, exploring alternative genetic counseling service delivery models, and engaging in community outreach and education to non-genetics healthcare professionals. Marina earned her master’s degree in genetic counseling from the University of California, Irvine and her bachelor’s degree in biological sciences with a minor in psychology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.