Kayla King, MS, CGC

Kayla has experience seeing patients in adult, pediatric and prenatal genetics clinics. She serves as a clinical supervisor within the Masters Genetic Counseling program at VCU and has enjoyed participating in the completion of many student thesis projects. She works as Co-leader of the General Genetics clinical rotation at VCU and was awarded Outstanding Clinical Supervisor in 2018. Kayla grew up in Southeastern Michigan and enjoys yearly trips to Michigan to visit family and friends. Her favorite parts about Richmond are the good food and live music.

• Ocular Manifestations of Nabais Sa-de Vries Syndrome Type 1. Int J Mol Epidemiology Genetics, 2022; 12 (1). ISSN:1948-1756. Zhang, King and Couser.
• Ophthalmic abnormalities in Wieacker-Wolff Syndrome. Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. 2022 Apr;26(2):91-93. Comlekoglu, Kumar, King, Al Saif, Li and Couser.
• Co-occurrence of Incontinentia Pigmenti and Down Syndrome: Examining Patients’ Potential Susceptibility to Autoimmune Disease, Autoinflammatory Disease, Cancer, and Significant Ocular Disease. Ophthalmic Genetics, 2021 Vol 42, No.92-95. Gibson, Couser and King.
• Eye, ocular adnexa, and facial manifestations of tetrasomy 18p: case report and literature review. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism. 2021 132:S70. Saadeh-Jackson, King, Al Saif and Jackson-Cook.
• Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome: a case report and literature review. Ophthalmic Genetics, published online 10/5/2021. Shripadh Chitta, Jineet Patel, Shravan Renapurkar, Christopher Loschiavo, Jennifer Rhodes, Kayla King, Kimberly Salkey, Natario Couser