Dian Donnai

Dian Donnai
CBE, FRCP, FRCOG, FMedSci
Born 1945 (age 71–72)
Nationality United Kingdom
Occupation Medical geneticist

Professor Dian Donnai CBE, FRCP, FRCOG, FMedSci (born 1945) is a British medical geneticist.

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 St 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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Peter Harper; Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2010), Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, ISBN 978-0-85484-127-1 http://www.histmodbiomed.org/witsem/vol39 Missing or empty |title= (help), Wikidata Q29581774
  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. PMID 8266995. doi:10.1002/ajmg.1320470518.
  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. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
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