Professor Kate Tatton-Brown
Professor Kate Tatton-Brown is a clinical academic working in the area of medical genetics. She studied medicine at the University of Oxford before training first in paediatrics and then in clinical genetics. In addition to her NHS clinical practice, Kate has a keen interest in educating and training the postgraduate healthcare workforce in genomics. She is the clinical lead for genomic education at the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and has developed a number of online and face to face courses aimed at different healthcare professionals and postgraduate students. In addition, Kate runs a research study to investigate the genetic causes of a group of conditions associated with increased growth and an intellectual disability and has published widely in this area.
Dr Nirupa Murugaesu
Dr Nirupa Murugaesu qualified from UCL Medical School in 2001. After completing her general medical training in London, she trained in Medical Oncology at St Bartholomew’s and University College London Hospitals and completed a PhD at The Institute of Cancer Research in 2011. Following which, she completed a Clinical Lectureship in The Translational Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory at University College London and The Francis Crick Institute with an academic research interest in tracking cancer evolution through therapy. Dr Murugaesu is a Consultant in Medical Oncology at St George’s Hospital, Cancer Genomics Medical Lead for the London South Genomics Laboratory Hub and the Clinical Lead for Molecular Oncology for the 100,000 Genomes Project. This role included clinical leadership and oversight of the Cancer Programme to optimise NHS cancer pathways and pathology pipelines for cancer sample collection along with engagement of the UK clinical academic community to transform delivery of molecular testing in NHS clinical cancer care and enhance research outputs.
Dr Julian Barwell
Dr Julian Barwell studied at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals Medical School in London and completed his PhD in familial breast cancer susceptibility in 2006. After finishing his training in Clinical Genetics at Guy's, St George's and The Royal Marsden Hospitals’, he became a consultant in familial cancer susceptibility in Leicester in 2007. He runs specialist clinics in Von Hippel Lindau syndrome, Neurofibromatosis type II and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and susceptibility to hepatocellular carcinoma. He helped coin the internationally known phrase, the ‘Angelina Jolie effect’ of inherited breast cancer. Dr Julian Barwell developed the first You Tube channel for clinical genetics that has been viewed in over 100 countries and is the clinical director for delivery of genetics, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, non-malignant haematology badged Clinical Research Network studies in the East Midlands, covering 4.5 million people. Julian is the rare disease lead for the 100,000 Genome Project in Leicester and the Public and Patient Involvement clinical lead for the East of England Genomics Medicine Centre with the aim of reducing inequality of access to Genomic Medicine. He helped launch the Cancer Genomics project on BBC Breakfast. https://twitter.com/bbcbreakfast/status/1177496045846007809?lang=en-gb Julian was awarded an honorary chair in 2016 at the University of Leicester and sits on the Breast Cancer Now grant review board as the national clinical genetics representative and has been voted onto the United Kingdom Cancer Genetics Group Steering Committee. Julian is the senior editor of the Royal College of Physicians Journal updates in Clinical Genetics and has written a number of articles on the future of genomic medicine.
Session 5: Genetics
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Professor Kate Tatton-Brown
Consultant clinical geneticist, St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Nirupa Murugaesu
Consultant in medical oncology, St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and clinical lead in cancer genomics and cancer studies, Genomics England
Dr Julian Barwell
Consultant in clinical genetics, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and honorary professor in cancer studies, University of Leicester
