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