Jane Green (geneticist)

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Professor

Jane Green

PhD, OC, ONL, , FCAHS
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
OccupationMedical geneticist
EmployerMemorial University of Newfoundland
AwardsKnowledge Translation award

Professor Jane S. Green PhD, OC ONL, , FCAHS (born 1943) is a Canadian medical geneticist.

Life[]

Green studied Zoology, obtaining a BSc in 1964, and Drosophila Genetics, obtaining an MSc in 1966, both from the University of British Columbia.[1] She moved to Newfoundland in 1967.[2]

She helped to establish an Ocular Genetics Clinic from 1978 to 1986 and, after a family was referred there with Von Hippel–Lindau disease, began a cancer genetics screening programme.[1]

She became a faculty member at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1988 and obtained a PhD there in 1995; her dissertation was on the development of clinical and genetic screening programmes for hereditary cancer syndromes.[1][3] She was appointed Professor in the Discipline of Genetics there in 2002, [1] and retired in April 2016.[4]

In 2008 she received the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Knowledge Translation award. She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the (Hon FCCMG) in the same year.[1] She received the CCMG's Founders Award in 2012 for her contribution to developing genetics services in Newfoundland and Canada,[1] and was awarded the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2013.[5] She is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS).[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Emma M. Jones; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2013). Clinical Cancer Genetics: Polyposis and Familial Colorectal Cancer c.1975-c.2010. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-902238-85-5. Wikidata Q29581797.
  2. ^ "Dr. Jane Green". Canadians for Health Research. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  3. ^ Green, Jane S. (1995). Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Clinical and Genetic Screening Programs for Hereditary Tumour Syndromes (PhD). Memorial University of Newfoundland.
  4. ^ "Retirement Celebration for Dr. Jane Green, Discipline of Genetics..." Memorial University of Newfoundland. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  5. ^ a b "2013 Recipients - Biographies - 2013 Order of Newfoundland and Labrador". Government of Newfoundland. Retrieved 31 July 2017.

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