Dian Donnai

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]

• Dian Donnai on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website