Kyla Dunn, MS, LCGC, is a cardiovascular genetic counselor specializing in hereditary cardiomyopathies and arrhythmia syndromes, including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), long QT syndrome (LQTS), catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), Brugada syndrome and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC). She has experience with postmortem genetic testing following the sudden cardiac death of a young person and is a member of the National Society of Genetic Counselors Postmortem Group. She graduated from Yale College in 1993 and worked for over a decade as a science journalist before completing her master’s degree in human genetics and genetic counseling at Stanford School of Medicine in 2011. She joined the Betty Irene Moore Children’s Heart Center in 2012 as its first genetic counselor.