Tessa Rootenberg is a clinical genetic counselor in the Division of Medical Genetics at Weill Cornell Medicine. She completed her genetic counseling graduate education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and is ABGC board-certified. Her Master's thesis investigated parental attitudes toward whole exome sequencing in autism spectrum disorders and co-occurring epilepsy. She is a member of the multidisciplinary Klinefelter Syndrome Care Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and enjoys supervising genetic counseling graduate students.