Kathy Steinhaus-French, M.S. - UCI School of Medicine

FACULTY

Academic Address:
UCI Medical Center
101 The City Drive
ZC 4482
Orange, CA 92868

Email:
kasteinh@uci.edu

Kathryn Steinhaus French, M.S., CGC - Faculty Profile

As a Genetic Counselor, Ms. Steinhaus-French sees patients referred for a variety of indications which may place a current or future pregnancy at risk. Patients may be offered various prenatal testing options, including amniocentesis, chronic villis sampling, combined first trimester screening, and ultrasonography. In addition to her clinical activities, Ms. Steinhaus-French is also actively involved in graduate and medical student education at UCI.

Interests:
Research involves developing universal standards for human pedigree nomenclature. Through her research with coinvestigator, Robin Bennett, Ms. Steinhaus-French has documented the need for the development of standardized pedigree symbols. She has developed recommendations for standardized family pedigree nomenclature which were published in the American Journal of Human Genetics in March, 1995. In the future, she will attempt to incorporate these standardized symbols into graduate, medical, and nursing student curriculum, board examinations, medical publications, and computer software programs.

Specific Projects:
Standardization of Family Pedigree Nomenclature research project funded through the National Society of Genetics Counselors and Washington State Department of Education.

Genetics Counseling Strategies with Mexican-Origin Women. This research explores clinicians' strategies for communicating prenatal genetics information and service options to Mexican-origin clients in California and Texas, where Mexican-origin women constitute a large and growing proportion of women in prenatal care.

1. Spear G, Steinhaus K, Quddisi A. Diffuse mesangial sclerosis in a fetus. Clinical Nephrology 36:36-48, 1991.

2. Steinhaus K, Bernstein R, Bocian M. Importance of accurate diagnosis in genetic counseling for neural tube defects. Clinical Genetics, 39:355-361, 1991.

3. Bernstein R, Steinhaus K, Cain MJ. Prenatal application of fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) for identification of a mosaic Y chromosome marker, idic (Yp). Prenatal Diagnosis, 12: 709-716, 1992.

4. Bennett R, Steinhaus K, Uhrich S, O'Sullivan C, Resta R, Lochner-Doyle D, Marketl D, Vincent V, Hamanishi J. Recommendations for standardized human pedigree nomenclature. American Journal of Human Genetics, 56: 745-752, 1995.

5. Steinhaus K, Bennett R, Resta R, Uhrich S, Lochner-Doyle D, Markel D, Vincent V. Inconsistencies in pedigree symbols in human genetics publications: A need for standardization. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 56: 291-295, 1995.