Meghan Gillespie
Biography
Meghan Gillespie, MS, LCGC, is a Health Science Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UC Irvine Medical Center. She received her Master of Science in Human Genetics from Sarah Lawrence College's Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics in 2010. Ms. Gillespie has practiced as a genetic counselor for over 15 years, holding licensure in California, with experience spanning clinical patient care, laboratory genetic counseling, and gamete donor screening.
At UC Irvine, Ms. Gillespie provides genetic counseling in pediatric and adult clinics, supervises genetic counseling students, and lectures on human genetics and genomics. She has served as course director for Molecular Genetics and Cytogenetics Lab courses since 2021, and has been a member of the Admissions Committee for the UCI Genetic Counseling Graduate Program since 2021. Ms. Gillespie is a Diplomat of the American Board of Genetic Counseling and a member of the Southern California Association of Genetic Counselors.
Ms. Gillespie's career includes roles at Fulgent Genetics, where she served as Director of Genetic Counseling and as a Laboratory Support Genetic Counselor, managing a team of genetic counselors, analyzing next-generation sequencing data and writing reports, and providing ongoing client support. She also spent five years at California Cryobank facilitating gamete donor screening and coordinating genetic testing between donors and recipients.
Return to topEducation
- M.S. in Human Genetics, Sarah Lawrence College, 2010
- B.S. in Biology, Old Dominion University, 2007
Distinctions
- Leadership Education in Neurodevelopment Disabilities and Related Disorders (LEND) Fellowship, Rose F Kennedy University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, 2009-2010
Areas of Expertise
- Clinical Genetic Counseling
- Pediatric Genetics
- Genetics of Hearing Loss
- Variant Curation and Classification
- Next-Generation Sequencing Analysis
Recent Publications
- Nevitt, N., Singh, K., Gillespie, M., Nussbaum, N., “Framing Conversations Around Fertility: Experiences of People with Cystic Fibrosis, Their Parents, and Their Clinical Teams”, 2024. Presented at 2024 CHOC-UCI Rare Disease Conference, Irvine, CA, March 2024.
- Glines, E., Singh, K., Gillespie, M., Hall, K., Zell, J., “GROUPS: Measuring Success of an Educational Video About Saving Medical Records After a Cancer Diagnosis”, 2022. Presented at SCGC Annual Education Conference, San Diego, CA, 5/13/2022.
- Brewer, C. J., Gillespie, M., Fierro, J., Scaringe, W. A., Li, J. (Mickey), Lee, C., Yen, H.-Y., Gao, H., Strom, S. P., “The Value of Parental Testing by Next-Generation Sequencing Includes the Detection of Germline Mosaicism” (opens in new tab), The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, 2020.
- “Clinical Utility of Genomic Testing on Prenatal Samples: A Phenotypic Review”, 2019. Presented at ACMG.
- Yano, S., Fujimoto, A., Morin-Leisk, J., Matumoto, N., Miyake, N., Gillespie, M., Gao, H., “New SMARCE1 variant in a patient with features overlapping with oculoauriculofrontonasal syndrome” (opens in new tab), Clinical Genetics, vol. 94, no. 5, pp. 487-488, 2018.
- “Challenges in Disclosure of Clinically Complex Incidental Findings to Extended Family Members”, 2016. Presented at ACMG.
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Last updated on 10/22/2026.