Dian Donnai

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

Dian Donnai

CBE, FRCP, FRCOG, FMedSci
Born1945 (age 75–76)
NationalityUnited Kingdom
OccupationMedical 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
  1. 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.
  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. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
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