Dr Kristine Barlow-Stewart

Title Director, Centre for Genetics Education,
Institution Centre for Genetics Education, NSW Genetics
Discipline 

Genetics, Genetic Counselling

Expertise 

Developing and providing current information for the community, professionals and families to address the impact of genetic technologies

Research 

Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant, Genetic discrimination in Australia: an exploration of the nature and extent of the phenomenon within the legal and social context

Public Health Education Research Program, Human Genetics and Public Health Course

Relevant Publications 

Barlow-Stewart K and Keays D (2001) Genetic Discrimination in Australia, Journal of Law and Medicine 8 250-262

Meiser B, Eisenbruch M, Barlow-Stewart K, Tucker K, Goldstein D, Steel Z (2001) Cultural aspects of cancer genetics: Setting a research agenda, Journal of Medical Genetics 38 425-429.

Barlow-Stewart K, Burnett L, Proos A, Howell V, Huq F, Lazarus R and Aizenberg H, A Genetic Screening Programme for Tay-Sachs disease and Cystic Fibrosis for Australian Jewish High School Students, (2003) Journal of Medical Genetics

Barlow-Stewart K and Gaff C, Working in Partnership with Support Services in the Era of the “New Genetics”, (2003) 178 Medical Journal of Australia 515-9

Burnett L, Barlow-Stewart K, Proos A, and Aizenberg H, The “GeneTrustee”: A Universal Identification System that Ensures Privacy and Confidentiality for Human Genetic Databases, (2003) 10 Journal of Law and Medicine 506-13;

Eisenbruch M, Yeo S, Meiser B, Goldstein D, Tucker K, Barlow-Stewart K, Optimizing clinical practice in cancer genetics with cultural competence: Lessons to be learned from ethnographic research with Chinese-Australians,. accepted by Social Science and Medicine on 10 January 2003.

Otlowski M, Taylor Sand Barlow-Stewart K , Genetic Discrimination: Too Few Data, (2003) 11 European Journal of Human Genetics 1-28.

Doble A, Barlow-Stewart K, Ferris S, Khor S, Stapleton P and Whittaker G (2001) Genetics in Society 2001. Institute of Actuaries of Australia, Sydney ISBN 0 85813 070 X

Barlow-Stewart K, Ed. (2004) The Genetics Resource Book: Directory of Genetics Services, Support Groups and Information for Australia and New Zealand. 7th edition. The Centre for Genetics Education (ISBN 0 7310 7162 X)

Barlow-Stewart K (1999): Genetic testing and society: freedom, burden, power. In O’Sullivan G, Sharman E and Short S: Goodbye Normal Gene, Pluto Press.