The director of the Margaret Dyson Family Risk Assessment Program, she studies the ethical dilemmas that arise in cancer prevention and predictive genetic testing. Currently evaluating how and when parents share genetic test results with their children. “We did a small series of interviews with young adults who learned in late adolescence of their mothers’ breast cancer hereditary mutation. We assumed they would indulge in more risk-taking behavior, but they actually tended to become healthier — they quit smoking, ate a healthier diet, or exercised regularly.”