Dr. Metzenberg received her master's degree in genetic counseling from the University of California, Irvine and is a diplomate of the American Board of Medical Genetics. She was employed as a genetic counselor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison while earning a Ph.D. in genetics. As a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, she worked part-time in the UCSF prenatal clinic. She was a lecturer at the UCSF School of Medicine before accepting the position of the Director of the Genetic Counselng Program at California State University, Northridge. She continues to conduct research on the molecular basis of human diseases (The Metz Lab).

Courses Taught:

Human Genetics
(Biology 468, 3 semester hours)
Genetic principles as applied to the human, including patterns of inheritance, quantitative disorders, risk calculations, and Bayesian analysis, a genetic perspective of pregnancy and embryology, and introductions to human cytogenetics, human biochemical genetics, human molecular genetics, ethics and medical genetics.

Human Biochemical Genetics
(Biology 564, 3 semester hours)
Metabolic pathways, consequences of abnormalities in these pathways, appropriate use of biochemical and molecular technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of inborn errors of metabolism.

Molecular Diagnostics
(Biology 571, 3 semester hours)
Current diagnostic techniques, progress in the Human Genome Project and related work, gene therapy, ethical ramifications.

Colloquium in Human Genetics
(Biology 665 , 4 semester hours)
Lecture-based introduction to clinical practice for the genetic counseling student, including an overview of the profession, and field trips to institutions and service center for the handicapped.
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