Christina Rybak, M.S., CGC
Senior Genetic Counselor, The City of Hope Orange County Lennar Foundation Cancer Center
Christina is a genetic counselor at The City of Hope Orange County Lennar Foundation Cancer Center. Education 2006, Master of Science, Genetic Counseling, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 2001, Bachelor of Arts, English, Duke University, Durham, NC Professional Experience 2022-present, Genetic Counselor, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 2021-2022, Telehealth Genetic Counselor, Natera, Austin, TX 2018-2021, Senior Genetic Counselor, Integrated Genetics, Santa Fe, NM 2018, Senior Genetic Counselor, Human Longevity, San Diego, CA 2017-2018, Genetic Counselor, Human Longevity, San Diego, CA 2014-2017, Cancer Genetic Counselor, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 2008-2014, Genetic Counselor, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 2006-2008, Coordinator, Family Risk Evaluation Program and Genetic Counselor, St. Mary Medical Center, San Francisco, CA Memberships 2006-present, National Society of Genetic Counselors 2006-present, Cancer SIG 2017-present, Precision Medicine SIG (2019-2021, Co-Chair, Elective Genome Sequencing Subcommittee) 2019-present, Prenatal SIG 2019-present, ART and Infertility SIG Publications Kilbride, M.K., Egleston, B.L., Hall, M.J., Patrick-Miller, L.J., Daly, M.B., Ganschow, P., Grana, G., Olopade, O.I., Fetzer, D., Brandt, A., Chambers, R., Clark, D.F., Forman, A., Gaber, R., Gulden, C., Horte, J., Long, J.M., Lucas, T., Madaan, S., Mattie, K., McKenna, D., Montgomery, S., Nielsen, S., Nielsen, S., Powers, J., Rainey, K., Rybak, C., Savage, M., Seelaus, C., Stoll, J., Stopfer, J.E., Yao, X.S., Domchek, S.M., & Bradbury, A.R. (2020). Longitudinal follow-up after telephone disclosure in the randomized COGENT study. Genet Med. 22(8)1401-1406. Hou, Y.C., Yu, H.C., Martin, R., Cirulli, E.T., Schenker-Ahmed, N.M., Hicks, M., Cohen, I.V., Jonsson, T.J., Heister, R., Napier, L., Swisher, C.L., Dominguez, S., Tang, H., Li, W., Perkins, B.A., Barea, J., Rybak, C., Smith, E., Duchicela, K., Doney, M., Brar, P., Hernandez, N., Kirkness, E.F., Khan, A.M., Venter, J.C., Karow, D.S., & Caskey, C.T. (2020) Precision medicine integrating whole-genome sequencing, comprehensive metabolomics, and advanced imaging. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 117(6):3053-3062. Solomon, I., Rybak, C., Van Tongeren, L., Kuzmich, L., Blazer, K., Nehoray, B., Niell-Swiller, M., Bray, S., Bray, T.H., Hurley, K., Weitzel, J.N., & Slavin, T.P. (2019) Experience Gained from the Development and Execution of a Multidisciplinary Multi-syndrome Hereditary Colon Cancer Family Conference. J Cancer Educ. 34(6):1204-1212. Beri, N., Patrick-Miller, L.J., Egleston, B.L., Mall, M.J., Domchek, S.M., Daly, M.B., Ganschow, P., Grana, G., Olopade, O.I., Fetzer, D., Brandt, A., Chambers, R., Clark, D.F., Forman, A., Gaber, R., Gulden, C., Horte, J., Long, J., Lucas, T., Madaan, S., Mattie, K., McKenna, D., Montgomery, S., Nielsen, S., Powers, J., Rainey, K., Rybak, C., Savage, M., Seelaus, C., Stoll, J., Stopfer, J.E., Yao, X.S., & Bradbury, A.R. (2019) Preferences for in-person person disclosure: Patients declining telephone disclosure characteristics and outcomes in the multicenter Communication of Genetic Test Results by Telephone study. Clin Genet. 95(2):293-301. Hall, M.J., Patrick-Miller, L.J., Egleston, B.L., Domchek, S.M., Daly, M.D., Ganschow, P., Grana, G., Olopade, O.I., Fetzer, D., Brandt, A., Chambers, R., Clark, D.F., Forman, A., Gaber, Gulden, C., Horte, J., Long, J.M., Lucas, T., Madaan, S., Mattie, K., McKenna, D., Montgomery, S., Nielsen, S., Powers, J., Rainey, K., Rybak, C., Savage, M., Seelaus, C., Stoll, J., Stopfer, J.E., Yao, X.S., & Bradbury, A.R. (2018) Use and Patient-Reported Outcomes of Clinical Multigene Panel Testing for Cancer Susceptibility in the Multicenter Communication of Genetic Test Results by Telephone Study. JCO Precis. Oncol. doi:10.1200/PO.18.00199. Epub 2018 Dec. 18 Slavin, T.P., Van Tongeren, L.R., Behrendt, C.E., Solomon, I., Rybak, C., Nehoray, B., Kuzmich, L., Niell-Swiller, M., Blazer, K.R., Tao, S., Yang, K., Culver, J.O., Sand, S., Castillo, D., Herzog, J., Gray, S.W., & Weitzel, J.N. (2018) Prospective Study of Cancer Genetic variants: Variation in Rate of Reclassification by Ancestry by Ancestry. J Natl Cancer Inst. 110(10):1059-1066. Bradbury, A.R., Patrick-Miller, L.J., Egleston, B.L., Hall, M.J., Domchek, S.M., Daly, M.B., Ganschow, P., Grana, G., Olopade, O.I., Fetzer, D., Brandt, A., Chamber, R., Clark, D.F., Forman, A., Gaber, R., Gulden, C., Horte, J., Long, J.M., Lucas, T., Madaan, S., Mattie, K., McKenna, D., Montgomery, S., Nielsen, S., Powers, J., Rainey, K., Rybak, C., Savage, M., Seelaus, C., Stoll, J., Stopfer, J.E., & Yao, X.S. (2018) Randomized Non Inferiority Trial of Telephone vs. In-Person Disclosure of Germline Cancer Genetic Test Results. JNCI 110 (9):985-993. Weitzel, J.N., Chao, E.C., Nehoray, B., Van Tongeren, L.R., LaDuca, H., Blazer, K.R., S. Lavin, T., Pesaran, T., Rybak, C., Solomon, I. Niell-Swiller, M., Dolinsky, J.S., Castillo, D., Elliott, A., Gau, C.L., Speare, V., & Jasperson, K. (2018) Somatic TP53 variants frequently confound germ-line testing results. Genet Med. 20(8):809-816. Slavin, T.P., Neuhausen, S.L., Nehoray, B., Niell-Swiller, M., Solomon, I., Rybak, C., Blazer, K., Adamson, A., Yang, K., Sand, S., Guerrero-Llamas, N., Castillo, D., Herzog, J., Wu, X., Tao, S., Raja, S., Chung, V., Singh, G., Nadesan, S., Brown, S., Cruz-Correa, M., Peterson, G.M., & Weitzel, J. Clinical Cancer Genomics Community Research Network (CCGCRN).(2018) The spectrum of genetic variants in hereditary pancreatic cancer includes Fanconic anemia genes. Fam Cancer. 17(2):235-245.
