Program Leadership

Shama Khan is a board-certified and licensed genetic counselor and is the Assistant Director of the Genetic Counseling Master's Program (GCMP) at Rutgers University.  Shama received her Master of Science in Genetic Counseling from Arcadia University, an MPH in Epidemiology from Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and a Master of Science in Human Genetics from Tulane University School of Medicine. Before joining the program leadership at Rutgers GCMP, she had 10 years of experience as a Genetic Counselor working in clinical research and as a Research Study Manager in Perinatal Genetics and Maternal Fetal Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 

As Assistant Director, Shama is the course director for Research Methods, Counseling Techniques for Genetic Counselors, and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice seminar.  Shama is also the Project Coordinator for the Alliance for Genetic Counseling Fellowship, serving as the main liaison between Rutgers and other consortia programs, and is a mentor to scholarship recipients. She is the co-chair of the admissions committee and is involved with recruitment and outreach activities.  Her interests include the promotion of family health history awareness in the Muslim community.