Dian Donnai

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Dian Donnai
Born1945 (age 79–80)
NationalityUnited Kingdom
OccupationMedical 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

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  2. 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.
  3. "It's all in the genes for Di". Manchester Evening News. 30 April 2005. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  4. "Professor Dian Donnai". Academy of Medical Sciences. Archived from the original on 1 August 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2017.

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