Biography
After receiving her cum laude B.S. in biology from Heidelberg University, Tiffin, Ohio, in 2013, Olewiler earned her M.S. in genetic counseling at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio in 2016. She then joined Nationwide Children’s Hospital as a licensed genetic counselor where she worked for two years before transitioning to UMMC.
Over the years Olewiler has given invited presentations at universities in Ohio, has been a clinical supervisor for an Ohio State University genetic counseling master’s student and supervised several other genetic counseling students in various master's programs.
Her prior research interests have included parental beliefs and attitudes toward false-positive Krabbe disease newborn screening, the role of religious/spiritual assessments within genetic counseling, and valosin-containing protein in frontotemporal dementia.
