Sarah A. Jackson, MS, CGC

Sarah A. Jackson is a genetic counselor who is licensed by the state of Illinois and certified by the American Board of Genetic Counselors. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology at Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi, and then earned her Master of Science degree in human genetics at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. 

Prior to her employment at the University of Chicago, Ms. Jackson established the first Genetic Counseling Clinic in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Little Rock, Arkansas. While there, she played a key role in establishing a new Genetic Counseling Graduate Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including serving as Interim Program Director. She is currently a faculty member of the Northwestern University Genetic Counseling program. 

Ms. Jackson has delivered platform presentations, poster presentations and workshops both nationally and internationally. She has presented at the American College of Medical Genetics, International Society for Psychiatric Genetics, among others, and was most recently invited to present as part of a Cancer Genetics workshop at the 2009 Brazilian Congress of Clinical Oncology.