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Prof. Diana Baralle
Vice President - University Hospital Southampton
Council Term
2022-2023
Professional Profile
Prof Baralle is a professor of genomic medicine. At the University of Southampton, she's a principal investigator in human development and health in the faculty of medicine and programme lead for the master's in genomic medicine.
Prof. Sarah Smithson
President - University Hospitals Bristol
Council Term
2021-2023
Professional Profile
Professor Sarah Smithson is the lead clinician for Clinical Genetics at the University Hospital Bristol.
Dr Meena Balasubramanian
Secretary - Sheffield University Hospitals
Council Term
2021-2024
Professional Profile
Dr Balasubramanian completed her Paediatric training before undertaking specialist training in Clinical Genetics in Southampton and Sheffield. Her MD is on atypical presentation of Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) obtained from the University of Sheffield in 2012. She has been a Consultant in Clinical Genetics at Sheffield Children’s Hospital since 2012 and provides genetics input to the national OI service, seeing patients referred across UK. She has led several projects focused on genetics of OI and currently pursuing research projects focussed on identifying novel genetic causes in OI and exploring newer targets for therapy for OI.
Meena’s research interests include in-depth phenotyping of rare bone diseases through skin and bone tissue analyses (funded by NIHR RD-TRC) combined with detailed clinical phenotyping and molecular genotyping. Advances in genomic medicine has led to increased use of next generation sequencing to identify new candidate genes and explore their phenotypic associations. Meena is the Bone fragility lead for Genomic Clinical Interpretation Partnership (GeCIP), part of the 100,000 Genomes project initiative to establish genetic causes of rare diseases in UK. She works across faculties in Sheffield, including projects with INSIGNEO on digital disease phenotyping; industry in identifying new targets for treating bone fragility. She has close links with clinicians in other regional metabolic and genetic centres; patient support groups including Brittle Bone Society.
Meena’s other areas of specialism, include Genetics in autism & Paediatric Dysmorphology. She has published over 40 first and senior-author publications in these areas and text books including a recent molecular medicine series on OI.
Dr Emma Wakeling
Treasurer - Great Ormond Street Hospital
Council Term
2020-2023
Professional Profile
Dr Emma Wakeling is a consultant in clinical genetics and genomic medicine. She sees patients with a wide range of childhood genetic disorders and has a specialist clinical and research interest in disorders of imprinting and growth failure.
Dr Wakeling qualified with an MA from the University of Oxford (1989) and MBBS from the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals (1992). She was awarded a PhD by the University of London in 1999. She was a Specialist Registrar in Clinical Genetics at the North West Thames Regional Genetics Service (NWTRGS) and appointed as a Consultant in 2004. Between 2007 - 2014 she was Training Programme Director and SAC representative for the Pan-Thames region. She was Clinical Lead for NWTRGS from 2015 - 2018. From 2019, she has been a consultant at North East Thames Regional Genetic Service, based at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Dr Angela Brady
Conference Organiser - North West Thames Regional Genetics Service, London
Council Term
2021-2024
Professional Profile
Dr Angela Brady is a Consultant Clinical Geneticist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. As a medical undergraduate she obtained a first class honours BMSc in Genetics and she graduated from Dundee University and Medical School in 1990. She obtained MRCP in 1993 and a PhD in Studies to Investigate the Pathogenesis of Noonan Syndrome from the University of London in 1998.
She was a Specialist Registrar in Clinical Genetics at the North West Thames Regional Genetics Service and appointed as a Consultant in 2000. She was Clinical Lead for the Service from 2007 to 2010 and Cancer Lead 2010-2015 and since February 2016. In 2015 she was interim Clinical Lead for the London based part of the National Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Diagnostic Service. She was Chair of the South East England Genetics Network from 2011 to 2013. She was elected as a member of the Steering Group for the Cancer Genetic Group of the British Society for Genetic Medicine in 2013.
Since January 2015 she has been the Clinical Genetics Representative on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She specialises in Cancer Genetics and Dysmorphology. She has set up a number of Cancer Genetic clinics in the NW Thames region and she runs a specialist Renal Genetic Clinic at the Hammersmith Hospital. She is principal investigator for a number of Cancer Genetic studies and actively recruits to general and cancer genetic studies.
Dr Siddharth Banka
Academic Vice President - Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine
Council Term
Nov 2020-2023
Professional Profile
Dr Siddharth Banka studied medicine at Lokmanya Tilak Medical College(University of Mumbai) and graduated in 2002. He obtained membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2006 and trained in Clinical Genetics at Manchester from 2007. Dr Banka achieved Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) in Clinical Genetics training in 2013. He was awarded a Research Training Fellowship by the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre from 2008 to 2011 to study the 'Genetics of Metabolic Disorders with Haematological Manifestations'. Dr Banka was awarded a PhD by the University of Manchester in 2012.
Dr Banka sees patients with a range of childhood or adult genetic disorders. He has a special interest in disorders of chromatin remodelling (eg Kabuki syndrome), chromosome aberrations and inborn errors of metabolism.
His area of research is in rare genetic developmental disorders. He uses an array of strategies underpinned by genomics to improve diagnosis of rare conditions, understand their disease mechanism and advance their medical management and treatment.
Dr Tazeen Ashraf
Clinical Governance Lead - Great Ormond Street Hospital
Council Term
2019-2022
Dr Asma Hamad
SpR representative - Clinical Genetics Unit, Birmingham Women's Hospital
Council Term
2020- 2023
Professional Profile
Asma completed her MRCPCH in 2017 and her MSC in Genomic Medicine at the University of Newcastle in 2019. She is currently a Clinical Genetics Specialist Registrar and is training in the West Midlands.
Dr Melody Redman
SpR representative -
Council Term
2022-2025
Dr Suresh Somarathi
Consultant Member -
Council Term
2021-2024
Dr Emma Baple
Consultant Member -
Council Term
2022-2025
Dr Rhoda Akilapa
Consultant Communications Lead - Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust
Council Term
2017-2023
Dr Alexander T Deng
Website & Comms - Department of Clinical Genetics, Guys and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Alexander T Deng is a Specialist Registrar in Clinical Genetics in London.
Dr Deng completed his medical degree at the University of Oxford and was awarded the DL Davies Prize for Medicine from St John's College. At Oxford he also won the Yamanouchi Prize in Cell Biology for his undergraduate degree in Molecular Medicine (1st class). He achieved a master's degree in Genetics of Human Disease with distinction at UCL, in which he ranked 1st place in the cohort. He attained membership of the Royal College of Physicians (UK).
Dr Alexandra Murray
SAC chair and representative for Wales - Institute of Medical Genetics University Hospital of Wales
Council Term
March 2017-2023
Professional Profile
Dr Murray is the Lead Clinician for the All Wales Medical Genomics Service, based at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff and Singleton Hospital in Swansea.
She worked as a locum registrar at the genetics departments in both Oxford and Cambridge before taking up her substantive registrar post in Cardiff in 2001. She was appointed as a consultant in 2005 and has been the Cancer Genetics Lead in Wales since 2006. She has led the Welsh cancer genetics mainstreaming programme and is a member of the Target Ovarian Cancer Clinical Advisory Panel.
Alex is the Chair of the JRCPTB’s Clinical Genetics Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC). The SAC contributes to the development of specialist training policy, supervises the delivery of training to standards set by the JRCPTB and develops the curriculum and methods of performance assessment for clinical genetics training.
She also Chairs the Welsh Government’s Genomics Strategy’s Workforce and Training implementation group and is the Undergraduate Teaching Lead for Cancer & Genetics at Cardiff University School of Medicine.
Dr Kay Metcalfe
Lead Clinician Chair -
Council Term
2020-2023
Professional Profile
Dr Ellie Hay
RCPCH Representative - Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
Council Term
2020-2023
Prof. Bill Newman
CRG Chair -
Council Term
2019-2023
Dr Helen Hanson
Cancer co-opted member -
Council Term
2021-2024
Dr Jennifer Campbell
Fetal Genetics Group -
Council Term
2021-2024
Dr Emma Hobson
Consultant Workforce Lead -
Council Term
2022-2025
Prof Zosia Miedzybrodzka
Representative for Scotland -
Council Term
2022-2025
Dr Tabib Dabir
Representative for Northern Ireland -
Council Term
2022-2025
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