Rachel Wyatt, MS, CGC

Rachel Wyatt is a cancer genetic counselor who works with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio's Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Department to provide genetic counseling services to both children and their families. She also works under the GRACIAS Texas grant program where she provides high risk cancer screening and cancer genetic education to underserved communities.

Wyatt has genetic counseling training in a number of specialties such as metabolism, pediatrics and prenatal. She promotes educational outreach through involvement in multiple genetic counseling initiatives and through research regarding diverse populations. Her most recent research project was titled, "Diverse Career Considerations of Potential Genetic Counseling Applicants," and explored ways of creating a more diverse genetic counseling workforce that could better serve patients.

Wyatt holds a Bachelor of Science degree in genetics with a minor in psychology from Texas A&M University, and a Master of Science degree in genetics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.