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Kara Bui

Kara Bui

Genetic Counselor

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Genetic Counselor at Caris Life Sciences

  • Education

    • City of Hope Clinical Genetics

      2007 - 2007
      Certificate Cancer Genetics

    • University of South Carolina School of Medicine

      2001 - 2003
      MS Genetic Counseling

      ABGC Board Certification, 2005Recertification valid until 2020

    • University of Michigan

      1996 - 2000
      BS Cell and Molecular Biology

    • Penn State World Campus

      2016 - 2016
      Certificate Applied Bioinformatics

  • Experience

    • Carilion Clinic

      Jan 2004 - Jul 2010
      Genetic Counselor

      Prenatal genetic counselor January 2004 - May 2007Cancer genetic counselor May 2007 - July 2010

    • Jefferson College of Health Sciences

      Jan 2007 - Jun 2010
      Adjunct Professor

      Taught introductory genetics to undergraduate students majoring in the health sciences.

    • LewisGale Regional Medical Center

      Jul 2010 - Feb 2012
      Genetic Counselor

      Director of the Department of Clinical Genetics

    • Prisma Health (formerly Greenville Health System)

      Feb 2012 - Nov 2020
      Genetic Counselor

      I covered a one-day-per-week clinic at the Prisma Health Cancer Institute in Spartanburg, SC, performing hereditary cancer risk assessments in person and over the phone.

    • Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System

      Apr 2012 - Aug 2013
      Genetic Counselor

      PRN position to cover maternity leave and vacations. Worked concurrently as a cancer genetic counselor at Greenville Health System Cancer Institute (now called Prisma Health).

    • Illumina, Inc.

      Feb 2013 - Apr 2013
      Literature Citation Specialist

      Contract position. Assessed genetic variants for likelihood of pathogenicity via literature reviews. Worked concurrently as a cancer genetic counselor at Greenville Health System Cancer Institute.

    • Integrated Genetics (LabCorp)

      Jul 2013 - May 2015
      Genetic Counselor

      Part-time prenatal genetic counselor. Worked concurrently as a cancer genetic counselor at Greenville Health System Cancer Institute (now called Prisma Health).

    • Caris Life Sciences

      Jul 2017 - now
      Genetic Counselor

      Full-time position held concurrently with one-day-per-week clinics at Prisma Health and Gibbs Cancer Center.Performs variant annotations for tumor profiles and contacts clients about potential clinically relevant germline variants.

    • Gibbs Cancer Center and Research Institute

      May 2021 - now
      Genetic Counselor

      One-day-per-week clinical cancer genetic counseling

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • ABGC

      American Board of Genetic Counseling (ABGC)
      Aug 2005