Professional Bio
Lucas Richter, MS, is a genetic counselor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center providing clinical services in the Division of Genetic Medicine Genomics and Therapeutics Clinic where he counsels patients with a personal or family history of a wide range of genetic disease. He also founded the Adapt Clinic within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, which is the first clinic in the state of Tennessee to provide psychiatric genetic counseling.
Mr. Richter conducts research in the Vanderbilt Genetics institute as a member of the Ruderfer Lab leveraging electronic health record data to assess psychiatric disorder presentation in the genetic counseling patient population, and psychiatric disorder comorbidities in patients with genetic disease. Additionally, he works with a team of bioinformaticians and computer scientists to establish protocols for utilizing EHR data with machine learning to predict genetic disease clinically.
He is a member of the International Common Disease Alliance (ICDA) Polygenic Risk Score Task Force, and the National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC).
Education
MS - Vocal Performance - Oklahoma City University, 2005
MS - Master of Science in Genetic Counseling - Vanderbilt University, 2021
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307