You were listening to episode 57 celebrating World Down Syndrome Day, understanding Trissome 21. Welcome to this episode. I am now welcoming Dr. Segal Lala who is a geneticist and we're

going to be talking more about the data and more about the

management of children with Trissomey 21. So thank you so much for joining me

Dr. Lala. Thanks for having me. This is so exciting and so nice to be able to talk to you today about something that I see really commonly.

Thank you so much. I'm so happy we were able to connect through Instagram and Sajel is actually on

Instagram at Lala Genetics. She is going to be building that platform and using this as a

way of hopefully building that more, but we're just so excited to have her and

share her expertise.

So tell me more about what you do as a geneticist.

Yeah, of course and that's a very good question because not many people know even when they're

in my office.

So geneticists do pretty much anything.

They're kind of like abnormal physicians,

like they're abnormal pediatricians,

they're abnormal maternal medicine specialists, anything that deviates

from expected development or expected progression of milestones or expected anything that doesn't go as we expect that it would and you know and the

testing is just getting better and more intricate and you know we are just able to obtain so much information from doing genetic

testing that it is valuable in so many individuals.

Well, I want to have you back on again to talk about genetic testing.

I'm sure we can talk about that in so much detail because yes, I have families who want genetic testing when maybe it's not

warranted and then obviously sometimes it is warranted so I think a whole episode

in the future about when genetic testing may be warranted or maybe a visit to geneticist may be warranted would be a really good topic.

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