Consultations with patients or those needing information on inheritance make up a large part of our day-to-day activities. Six doctors specialising in genetics, a number of community nurses and our secretaries are all part of the 'clinical team'.
The three key concepts behind our service are: information, consultation and guidance. We aim to ensure that you as a patient receive the most accurate and understandable information possible and get to the heart of your problem via our consultations. We also want to guide you sensitively through the process of finding and dealing with a diagnosis.
Consultations at the CMG are often multidisciplinary, i.e. there is both a doctor and a (community) nurse present and/or other specialists from UZ Brussel.

Laboratory reports

Our specialist genetics doctors offer advice and guidance to patients based on analyses carried out for them in the laboratories. There are a large number of experts, working across a number of different sectors, who are involved in making genetic diagnoses.  Their work is entirely focused on helping patients, both by providing and imparting scientific knowledge about a large number of genetic analyses, and also through pure scientific research that underlies our centre's various key activities.
To find out more about the activities of the various CMG laboratories, click on Laboratories in your browser.

PGD-clinic

One of these multidisciplinary collaborations within UZ Brussel has taken on a structured form: the PGD clinic. Here doctors, psychologists and laboratories from two departments at UZ Brussel work closely together: these are the CMG and the CRG which is the fertility clinic at UZ Brussel. The PGD clinic offers genetic diagnoses for IVF embryos, thereby aiming to help people with inherited disorders who are undergoing fertility treatment in the CRG to have a baby that does not carry the inherited disease.