Brittany Bowman, MGCS, CGC
Brittany Bowman, MGCS, CGC, is a licensed and certified genetic counselor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center's Munroe-Meyer Institute Department of Genetic Medicine.
- Languages Spoken: English
Bowman attended Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, where she was a genetics lead and tutor. After graduating with her degree in biology, she worked as an andrologist at a fertility clinic helping families achieve pregnancies through insemination and in vitro fertilization.
Inspired by the resiliency of her patients, she went on to complete her graduate education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in genetic counseling studies. While attending graduate school, Bowman was an assistant for the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, where she assisted in primate placenta translational treatment during pregnancy. Bowman is continuing her passion in women’s health by working with patients in the maternal fetal medicine clinic in Omaha.
Research
- Block LN, Bowman BD, Schmidt JK, Keding LT, Stanic AK, Golos TG. The promise of placental extracellular vesicles: models and challenges for diagnosing placental dysfunction in utero. Biol Reprod. 2020 Aug 28:ioaa152. doi: 10.1093/biolre/ioaa152. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32856695. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32856695/
- Michael J. Lagier, Brittany Bowman, Kelsey Brend, Katherine Hobbs, Michael Foggia, Mark McDaniel; Improved Functional Prediction of Hypothetical Proteins from Listeria monocytogenes 08-5578. The Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science 1 January 2014; 121 (1-4): 16–27. doi: https://doi.org/10.17833/121-03.1
Focus Areas
- Special interest in women’s health equity, policy and advocacy.
Honors
- University of Wisconsin Lifelong Learner scholarship recipient, 2018.
- University of Wisconsin LEND stipend recipient, 2018.
- Grand View University Presidential scholarship recipient, 2013.