Colleen Caleshu

Colleen Caleshu is Senior Director of Translational Research at GeneDx and a PhD candidate at Leiden University, where her dissertation is a randomized controlled trial of meditation to address genetic counselor burnout and improve counseling effectiveness. A genetic counselor and clinician-scientist with 23 years in genomic medicine, she leads GeneDx's research and real-world evidence efforts supporting biopharma partners in rare disease drug development and trial-enabling cohort development. Her 47 peer-reviewed publications span genetic counselor well-being, psychotherapeutic aspects of genetic counseling, psychosocial impacts of genetic disease, service delivery innovation, variant interpretation, and cardiovascular genetics. She established and led the genetic counseling program at the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, now the largest cardiovascular genetic counseling team in the world. She is a member of the JEMF Advisory Group, past vice-chair of the NSGC Edu