Sr. Genetic Counselor
Lenox Hill Hospital/Northwell Health
Elinor Langfelder-Schwind has devoted her career to working with adult and pediatric patients as a genetic counselor in accredited CF Centers in New York City, including St. Vincent's Hospital, Mount Sinai, and will be joining Northwell Health/Lenox Hill in 2022. Elinor is an active participant in the New York State CF newborn screening consortium, National Society of Genetic Counselors’ CFTR Spectrum Disorders Special Interest Group, and first author of the NSGC Practice Recommendations on CF screening. She is involved with CFTR gene modulation and other research studies about the care and treatment of people with CF. Elinor educates genetic counseling students from Sarah Lawrence College and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as a clinical training site coordinator, thesis advisor, and lecturer. Elinor has been an advocate of educating patients, professionals and the public about CF newborn screening. She served as principal investigator of a CF Foundation-funded screening improvement project to develop consensus recommendations about improving access to genetic counseling in CF newborn screening, and will be embarking on a stakeholder assessment to investigate feasibility of CF genetic counseling via telehealth.