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Christina Palmer, Ph.D.
Affiliations
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Assistant Professor In-Residence, Human Genetics
Faculty, Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics
Education:
Degree: Ph.D.
Contact Information:
Email Address: cpalmer@mednet.ucla.edu
Work Address: Office
UCLA-NPI
760 Westwood Plaza
Room 47-422
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES
Direct Contact Information:
Work Phone Number: (310) 794-4796 Office
Additional Information:

Christina Palmer is a geneticist who has been a UCLA faculty member since she joined the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics and Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences in 1999. She became Associate Professor in 2005, at which time she received a joint appointment in the Department of Human Genetics. Dr. Palmer is a faculty member of the UCLA Intercampus Medical Genetics Training Program, and is an affiliate of the UCLA Center for Society & Genetics where she served as Senior Faculty Fellow 2005-2006. Dr. Palmer earned her B.A. in Biology and Spanish at Indiana University, M.S. in Genetic Counseling at Sarah Lawrence College, and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (emphasis on Decision Sciences) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences where she worked on psychiatric genetics. She is certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics as a Ph.D. Medical Geneticist and by the American Board of Genetic Counseling as a Genetic Counselor. Dr. Palmer specializes in genetic counseling for deafness, and for psychiatric conditions. She is actively involved in undergraduate, graduate, and medical education. She is a recipient of the Jane Engelberg Memorial Fellowship from the National Society of Genetic Counselors for her work on methods for evaluating genetic counseling. Her research centers on genetics of complex behaviors and the educational, psychological, and behavioral outcomes of genetic counseling and genetic testing. Dr. Palmer is presently facilitating a collaboration of disciplines including genetics, deaf studies, audiology, psychology, and statistics to examine the individual and societal impact of genetic testing for deafness.

Publications:
Blase T, Martinez A, Grody WW, Schimmenti L, Palmer CGS Sharing GJB2/GJB6 genetic test information with family members. Journal of Genetic Counseling ; in press: .
Palmer CGS, Hsieh HJ, Reed EF, Lonnqvist J, Peltonen L, Woodward JA, Sinsheimer JS HLA-B maternal-fetal genotype matching increases risk for schizophrenia. American Journal of Human Genetics 2006; 79: 710-715.
Palmer CGS, Hadley DW Evaluating the impact of genetic counseling and testing with signal detection methods. Journal of Genetic Counseling 2005; 14: 17-27.
Palmer CGS, Martinez A, Sininger Y, Shapiro N, Grody W, Schimmenti LA Prelingual siblings of children with GJB2 hearing loss: Issues to consider. Archives of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 2005; 131: 1020-1022.
Kraft P, Palmer CGS, Woodward JA, Turunen JA, Minassian S, Paunio T, Lonnqvist J, Peltonen L, Sinsheimer JS RHD maternal-fetal genotype incompatibility and schizophrenia: Extending the MFG test to include multiple siblings and birth order. European Journal of Human Genetics 2004; 12: 192-198.
Hadley DW, Jenkins JF, Dimond E, de Carvalho M, Kirsch I, Palmer CGS Colon cancer screening practices following genetic counseling and testing for hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2004; 22: 39-44.
Schimmenti LA, Martinez A, Fox M, Crandall B, Shapiro N, Telatar M, Sininger Y, Grody WW, Palmer CGS Commentary: Genetic testing as part of the early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) process. Genetics in Medicine 2004; 6: 521-525.
Gasperoni TL, Ekelund J, Huttunen M, Palmer CGS, Tuulio-Henriksson A, Lonnqvist J, Kaprio J, Koskenvuo M, Peltonen L, Cannon TD Genetic linkage and association between chromosome 1q and working memory function in schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics) 2003; 116: 8-16.
Palmer CGS, Martinez A, Fox M, Crandall B, Shapiro N, Telatar M, Sininger Y, Grody WW, Schimmenti LA Genetic testing and the early hearing detection and intervention process. The Volta Review 2003; 103: 371-390.
Palmer CGS Risk perception: Another look at the 'White Male' effect. Health, Risk & Society 2003; 5: 71-83.
Sinsheimer JS, Palmer CGS, Woodward JA The maternal-fetal genotype incompatibility test: Detecting genotype combinations that increase risk for disease. Genetic Epidemiology 2003; 24: 1-13.
Martinez A, Linden J, Schimmenti LA, Palmer CGS Attitudes of the broader hearing, deaf, and hard-of-hearing community toward genetic testing for deafness. Genetics in Medicine 2003; 5: 106-112.
Palmer CGS, Turunen J, Sinsheimer JS, Minassian S, Paunio T, Lonnqvist J, Peltonen L, Woodward JA RHD maternal-fetal genotype incompatibility increases schizophrenia susceptibility. American Journal of Human Genetics 2002; 71: 1312-1319.
Palmer CGS, Carlstrom LK, Woodward JA Risk perception and ethnicity. Risk, Decision, and Policy 2001; 6: 187-206.
Palmer CGS, Bailey JN, Ramsey C, Cantwell, D, Sinsheimer JS, Del'Homme M, McGough J, Woodward JA, Asarnow R, Asarnow J, Nelson S, Smalley SL No evidence of linkage or linkage disequilibrium between DAT1 and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in a large sample. Psychiatric Genetics 1999; 9: 157-160.
Smalley SL, Bailey JN, Palmer CGS, Cantwell DP, McGough JJ, Del'Homme MA, Asarnow JR, Woodward JA, Ramsey C, Nelson SF Evidence that the dopamine D4 receptor is a susceptibility gene in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Molecular Psychiatry 1998; 3: 427-430.
Smalley SL, Woodward JA, Palmer CGS A general statistical model for detecting complex trait loci using affected relative pairs in a genome search.. American Journal of Human Genetics 1996; 58: 844-860.
Palmer CGS Risk perception: An empirical study of the relationship between worldview and the risk construct. Risk Analysis 1996; 16: 717-723.


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