Sandra Janssens
- Clinical geneticist
- Assistant Professor
- Head of Clinic at Ghent University Hospital
Contact
Campus UZ, C. Heymanslaan 10, K5 (entrance 81), 9000 Ghent
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Personalia
Biography
- 2021 - present: Professor - Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital
- 2018: certified as Clinical Geneticist, Agency for Care & Health
- 2017 - present: Head of Clinic - Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital
- 2016: PhD – Doctor of Biomedical Sciences - Ghent University & University of Leuven
- 2006- 2016: Deputy Head of Clinic - Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital
- 2001- 2006: Resident - Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital
- 1996-2001: Specialization in Pediatrics, 'C. Hooft' Children's Clinic – Ghent University
Member of
- Schisisteam
- Turnerkliniek
- Center for Medical Genetics
- Belgian Society for Human Genetics
- Subcommittee on Pregnancy Termination (Ethics Committee)
- BeSHG Prenatal Consortium
- BeSHG PGT Working Group
- Medical Advisory Board of the Huntington Liga V.Z.W.
- European Society of Human Reproduction (ESHRE)
- Multidisciplinary team on Nuclear Transfer for Mitochondrial Diseases and Infertility
- ELSI Working Group
- Belgian Society for Reproductive Medicine (BSRM)
- Ad hoc Clinical Working Group College - Incidental Findings in BeGECS
- Member of the Core Working Group - ERN GENTURIS Guidelines Group for Counselling on Reproductive Options for GENTURIS Patients
Research tracks
Expertise
I am responsible for prenatal diagnosis, preimplantation genetic testing, fetal pathology, and gamete donation, with a particular interest in expanded genetic carrier screening. Additionally, I have developed expertise in neurofibromatosis, otogenetics, and predictive testing for neurodegenerative diseases.
Publication
Key publications
- Accepting or Declining Preconception Expanded Carrier Screening: An Exploratory Study with 407 Couples. (2024) J. Genet. Couns.
- The Ethics of Disclosing Reported Conditions in Donor-Conceived Offspring to Recipients of the Same Donor. (2024) Abstracts 40th Hybrid Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology
- Managing risks for genetic conditions in donor sperm treatment : current practices in Belgian fertility clinics. (2024) Reprod. Biomed. Online
- Should we use expanded carrier screening in gamete donation? (2024) Fertil. Steril.
- Public views on genetics and genetic testing : a survey of the general public in Belgium. (2017) Genet. Test. Mol. Biomark.
- Responsible implementation of expanded carrier screening (vol 24, pg e1, 2016) (2017) Eur. J. Hum. Genet.
- Attitudes of European geneticists regarding expanded carrier screening. (2017) JOGNN
- Pre- and post-testing counseling considerations for the provision of expanded carrier screening : exploration of European geneticists’ views. (2017) BMC Med. Ethics
- Designing expanded carrier screening panels : results of a qualitative study with European geneticists. (2016) Pers. Med.
- Attitudes of cystic fibrosis patients and parents toward carrier screening and related reproductive issues. (2016) Eur. J. Hum. Genet.
- Attitudes of cystic fibrosis patients and their parents towards direct-to-consumer genetic testing for carrier status. (2015) Pers. Med.
- Attitudes of health care professionals toward carrier screening for cystic fibrosis: a review of the literature. (2014) J. Community Genet.