Donnai Dian

English geneticist. Professor Donnai was appointed senior registrar and in 1980 Consultant in medical genetics at St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester. In 1994 she was made Honorary Professor of Medical Genetics in the University of Manchester and appointed to the substantive chair in 2001. She has been President of the Clinical Genetics Society (1997-99), consultant advisor to the UK Chief Medical Officer (1998-2004) and President of the European Society of Human Genetics (2009-10). She was the Carter Lecturer of the Clinical Genetics Society in 2004 and received the March of Dimes Lifetime Achievement Award in Genetics in 2010. Her main interests are in dysmorphology, genetic service development and in public engagement in genetics. Donnai–Barrow syndrome is a genetic disorder first described by Donnai and Margaret Barrow in 1993. It is an inherited (genetic) disorder that affects many parts of the body. Read less