Dinel Allison Pond, MS, CGC

Dinel graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Genetic Counseling Program with a Master of Science degree in Medical Genetics in 2001. She began her career in the Genetics department at Children's Memorial Hospital (now Lurie Children's Hospital) in Chicago and joined Children's Minnesota in 2005. She works in the Genetics clinic, Pharmacogenomics clinic, Neurocutaneous clinic, and Cancer and Blood Disorders clinic, helping evaluate and counsel children and families with known or suspected genetic disorders. She is also the lead genetic counselor at Children's Minnesota and is a clinical supervisor for Genetic Counseling graduate students from the University of Minnesota and Augustana University.