Meet the Team

Stephanie Middleton

Locations

• Main Hospital
• Rare Disease Institute at the Research & Innovation Campus

Languages

• English

Departments

• Cancer Genetics Program
• Rare Disease Institute

• Stephanie Middleton, MS, CGC, is a genetic counselor certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling. She received her master’s degree in genetic counseling from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Prior to this, she worked as a genetic counseling assistant in a pediatric cancer genetics clinic at Texas Children’s Hospital and in clinical research at Stanford University. She joined the Cancer Genetics Program at Children’s National Hospital in September 2023 and sees patients and families with or at risk of having a cancer predisposition syndrome.

Joyce Turner

Locations

• Main Hospital
• Rare Disease Institute at the Research & Innovation Campus

Languages

• English

Departments

• Cancer Genetics Program

Biography

• Joyce Turner, MS, CGC, is a genetic counselor with over 25 years of experience. She is certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling. She also received advanced training in cancer risk assessment from the City of Hope.

  Joyce worked at the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health as a co-investigator and genetic counselor before taking a position at the Children’s National Hospital where she is now director of the Cancer Genetic Counseling Program, a program which she helped establish. Joyce’s current interests include research on somatic tumor analysis, Wilm's tumors and cancer screening and prevention. She is an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University Medical Center and serves as a supervisor for genetic counseling graduate students.