Hila Milo Rasouly, PhD

Dr. Hila Milo Rasouly is an Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences and the Associate Director of Education at the Center for Precision Medicine and Genomics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is a former genetic counselor with a PhD in genetics and genomics focused on kidney development from Boston University.

She has extensive experience in precision medicine research. As part of eMERGE-3, she published multiple network-wide studies. She also developed and validated a novel genetic literacy screening tool (GeneLiFT).

As the Associate Director of Education at the Center for Precision Medicine and Genomics, Dr. Milo Rasouly has directed many continuous medical education courses (CMEs) for clinicians interested in clinical genetics. She is also leading the center’s summer internship program.

She co-chaired the working group on “Achieving Implementation in Clinical Medicine” as part of a KDIGO meeting on the genetics of CKD (KI 2022). Following this meeting she also presented an online webinar on the challenges of the implementation of genetic testing in nephrology. She was also part of the American Society of Transplantation's “Living Donation/Living Donor Transplantation Genetics” workgroup and published recommendations on the genetic evaluation of living donors (AJKD 2023).

Her research focuses on the equitable implementation of genetic testing in nephrology. She is looking at the barriers and facilitators of genetic utilization in nephrology using a mixed methods approach, including using surveys, interviews and focus groups. Her full list of published work can be found here and selected publications can be found below.

If you are interested in working with Dr. Hila Milo Rasouly, please contact her directly at Hila.MiloRasouly@columbia.edu.

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List of Former Mentees

Some of Dr. Milo Rasouly's former mentees are co-authors or first authors on her papers

Genetic Counseling Students:

Mythili Merchant

Sara Acosta Villarreal

Samson Yuan

Felicia Russo

Sivan Reytan

Undergraduate Interns (Year-long):

Moureen Urujeni

Javier De Andre Cattle

Undegraduate Summer Interns:

Mahirah Islam Khan

Amir Yaghoobi
Ofek Harnof

Sandy Yang

Arianna (Haiyue) Li

Alexandra Rogers

Michael Mironidis

Michael Kotlik

Peter Mcentee

Rhea Sablani

Shiraz Bedha

Eleonora Achrak

Jenelle Cocorpus

Robyn Weiss

Daniel Rebibo

Denise Obaji

Shreya Sirivolu

Grace DeSanctis

Nicole Cuneo

Selected Publications

Below is a list of selected publications featuring some of her work. Her full list of published work can be found here.

Franceschini N, Feldman DL, Berg JS, Besse W, Chang AR, Dahl NK, Gbadegesin R, Pollak MR, Milo Rasouly H, Smith RJH, Winkler CA, Gharavi AG; NKF Genetic Testing Working Group. Advancing Genetic Testing in Kidney Diseases: Report From a National Kidney Foundation Working Group. American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 19 July 2024.

Fernandez HE, Lipton M, Balderes O, Lin F, Marasa M, Milo Rasouly H, Sabatello M. Pediatric nephrologists' perspectives and clinical practices related to genetic testing and education. Pediatric Nephrology. 9 October 2024.

Russo F, Chatterjee D, DeMaria N, Florido ME, Marasa M, Sabatello M, Wynn J, Milo Rasouly H. Negative results from DNA-based population screening for adult-onset diseases: the recipients' experience. J Community Genet. 7 October 2024.

Weiss R, Rasouly HM , Marasa M, Fernandez H, Lin F, Sabatello M. Nephrologists’ Views on a Workflow for Returning Genetic Results to Research Participants. Kidney international reports. Published online 2024. doi:10.1016/j.ekir.2024.08.026

Krishna Murthy SB, Yang S, Bheda S, Tomar N, Li H, Yaghoobi A, Khan A, Kiryluk K, Motelow JE, Ren N, Gharavi AG, Milo Rasouly H. Assisting the analysis of insertions and deletions using regional allele frequencies. Funct Integr Genomics. 2024 May 20;24(3):104. doi: 10.1007/s10142-024-01358-3. PMID: 38764005.

Rasouly HM, Balderes O, Marasa M, Fernandez H, Lipton M, Lin F, Gharavi AG, Sabatello M. The effect of genetic education on the referral of patients to genetic evaluation: Findings from a national survey of nephrologists. Genet Med. 2023 May;25(5):100814. doi: 10.1016/j.gim.2023.100814. Epub 2023 Feb 12. PMID: 36789889; PMCID: PMC10164060.

Julia Wynn*, Hila Milo Rasouly*, Tania Vasquez‐Loarte, Akilan M Saami, Robyn Weiss, Sonja I Ziniel, Paul S Appelbaum, Ellen Wright Clayton, Kurt D Christensen, David Fasel, Robert C Green, Heather S Hain, Margaret Harr, Christin Hoell, Iftikhar J Kullo, Kathleen A Leppig, Melanie F Myers, Joel E Pacyna, Emma F Perez, Cynthia A Prows, Alanna Kulchak Rahm, Gemme Campbell‐Salome, Richard R Sharp, Maureen E Smith, Georgia L Wiesner, Janet L Williams, Carrie L Blout Zawatsky, Ali G Gharavi, Wendy K Chung, Ingrid A Holm. Do research participants share genomic screening results with family members? J. Genet. Counseling 2021 PMID: 34665896

Rasouly HM, Aggarwal V, Bier L, Goldstein DB, Gharavi AG. Cases in Precision Medicine: Genetic Testing to Predict Future Risk for Disease in a Healthy Patient. Ann Intern Med. 2021 Jan 19; PMID: 33460345.

Milo Rasouly H, Cuneo N, Marasa M, DeMaria N, Chatterjee D, Thompson JJ, Fasel DA, Wynn J, Chung WK, Appelbaum P, Weng C, Bakken S, Gharavi AG. GeneLiFT: A novel test to facilitate rapid screening of genetic literacy in a diverse population undergoing genetic testing. J Genet Couns. 2020 Dec 26. PMID: 33368851.

Sabatello M, Milo Rasouly H. The ethics of genetic testing for kidney diseases. Nat Rev Nephrol. 2020 Nov;16(11):619-620. PMID: 32358593.

H Milo Rasouly and J Wynn, M Marasa, R Reingold, D Chatterjee, S Kapoor, S Piva, B Hee Kil, X Mu, M Alvarez, J Nestor, K Mehl, A Revah-Politi, N Lippa, ME Ernst, L Bier, A Espinal, B Haser, A Sinha, I Halim, D Fasel, N Cuneo, JJ Thompson, M Verbitsky, EG Cohn, J Goldman, K Marder, RL Klitzman, MA Orjuela, YS So, A Fedotov, KD Crew, K Kiryluk, PS Appelbaum, C Weng, K Siegel, AG Gharavi, W K. Chung. Evaluation of the cost and effectiveness of diverse recruitment methods for a genetic screening study. Genet Med. 2019 Apr 1. PMID: 30930462

Emily E. Groopman, Hila Milo Rasouly, Ali G. Gharavi. Genomic medicine for kidney disease. Nature Reviews Nephrology 2018 Feb;14(2):83-10. PMID: 29307893 PMCID: PMC5997488

Milo Rasouly H, Marasa M. Pitfalls and Challenges of Consenting to Genetic Research Studies. Kidney Int Rep. 2018 Aug 22;3(6):1245-1248. PMID: 30450447.

H Milo Rasouly, EE Groopman, R Heyman-Kantor, DA Fasel, A Mitrotti, R Westland, L Bier, C Weng, Z Ren, B Copeland, P Krithivasan, WK Chung, S Sanna-Cherchi, DB Goldstein, AG Gharavi. The Burden of Candidate Pathogenic Variants for Kidney and Genitourinary Disorders Emerging from Exome Sequencing. Ann Intern Med. 2018 Nov 27. PMID: 30476936.

Milo Rasouly H, Kumar S, Chan S, Pisarek-Horowitz A, Sharma R, Xi QJ, Nishizaki Y, Higashi Y, Salant DJ, Maas RL, Lu W. Loss of Zeb2 in mesenchyme-derived nephrons causes primary glomerulocystic disease. Kidney Int. 2016 Aug 30. PMID: 27591083

Milo Rasouly Hila, Lu Weining. Lower urinary tract development and disease. WIREs Syst Biol Med. 2013; 5(3):307-342. PMID: 23408557