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.
An active member of the National Society of Genetic Counselors within her community of Columbus, Ohio, Olewiler has given three invited presentations at universities in Ohio and has been a clinical supervisor for Ohio State University genetic counseling master’s students.
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.
