Katie is originally from Greenwood, South Carolina where she became interested in Genetic Counseling due to her close proximity to the Greenwood Genetic Center. She graduated from Carson-Newman College in East Tennessee with a BA degree in Biology and Chemistry in 2008. She then graduated from the genetic counseling program at the University of Cincinnati in 2012 (where her training was focused at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center). After graduate school, she moved to Little Rock to work as a pediatric Genetic Counselor at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. She loves pediatrics and is involved in general genetic clinics as well as specialty clinics including Hearing Impairment, Craniomaxillofacial, and Neurofibromatosis. She also teaches and supervises students in the Genetic Counseling program at UAMS. She is married and has 2 sons. She enjoys being with family and friends, traveling, and gardening.