Linda Freedkin

Biography

Linda Freedkin, M.S., is a Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at UC Irvine Medical Center. She provides genetic counseling services in prenatal and preconception settings, generates reports for the California Department of Public Health Genetic Disease Screening Program, and provides cross-coverage for the Adult/General Genetics clinic and in-patient NICU and Labor/Delivery Genetics consult service. Freedkin coordinates and teaches the PED GEN 200B course each Winter quarter, covering topics including normal pregnancy, carrier screening, in vitro fertilization and preimplantation genetic testing, recurrent miscarriage and infertility, maternal conditions during pregnancy, and neural tube defects.

Freedkin supervises approximately 15 genetic counseling graduate students and medical residents per year during clinical rotations in the UCI Prenatal Genetics clinic. As of September 2025, she has supervised 31 genetic counseling graduate students, 2 medical genetics residents, and 2 medical students. She serves as a committee member and mentor for master's thesis projects and participates on the Genetic Counseling Graduate Program's Admissions Committee and Program Planning Committee.

Freedkin received her M.S. in Genetic Counseling from the University of California, Irvine in 2022, where her thesis examined genetic counselors' attitudes towards religiously-based policies and their impacts on professional and ethical obligations in the prenatal setting. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Genetic Counseling and holds a California Department of Public Health Genetic Counseling License. She is a member of the National Society of Genetic Counselors and the Southern California Genetic Counselors.

Education

• M.S. in Genetic Counseling, University of California, Irvine, 2022
• B.S. in Biological Sciences, Chapman University, 2019