Dian Donnai | |
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| Born | 1945 (age 78–79) |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Medical geneticist |
Professor Dian Donnai CBE, FRCP, FRCOG, FMedSci (born 1945) is a British medical geneticist.
Biography
Donnai studied at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, then trained in paediatrics at St Mary's Hospital, Northwick Park Hospital and in Sheffield. [1]
She obtained a senior registrar training post in medical genetics at Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester in 1978, becoming a consultant in 1980. [1]
The University of Manchester appointed her an honorary professor of medical genetics in 1994, and gave her a substantive chair in 2001. [1]
She served as president of the Clinical Genetics Society from 1997 to 1999; as consultant advisor to the United Kingdom's Chief Medical Officer from 1998 to 2004; and as president of the European Society of Human Genetics from 2009 2010. [1]
Together with Margaret Barrow, she first described the genetic disorder ' Donnai–Barrow syndrome', in 1993. [2]
She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2005 New Year Honours, for services to medicine, [1] [3] and has also been elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists " ad eundem" (FRCOG (ad eundem)), and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci). [1] [4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Peter Harper; Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2010). Clinical Genetics in Britain: Origins and development. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-127-1. Wikidata Q29581774.
- ^ Donnai, D; Barrow, M (1993). "Diaphragmatic hernia, exomphalos, absent corpus callosum, hypertelorism, myopia, and sensorineural deafness: a newly recognized autosomal recessive disorder?". American Journal of Medical Genetics. 47 (5): 679–682. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.1320470518. PMID 8266995.
- ^ "It's all in the genes for Di". Manchester Evening News. 30 April 2005. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ^ "Professor Dian Donnai". Academy of Medical Sciences. Archived from the original on 1 August 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
External links
- Dian Donnai on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website
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- 1945 births
- Living people
- British geneticists
- Medical geneticists
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
- Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
- Academics of the University of Manchester