Senior Team
Clinical Director – To be appointed
Clinical Service Lead/Director: Dr Mary O’Driscoll
Consultant in Clinical Genetics Specialist interest: Neurogenetics
PA contact: Kerys Grainger
Divisional Director of Operations – Medicine Mr Matt Train
General Manager West Midlands Regional Genetics Service -Mr Paul Caldwell
Operational Manager: Ms Claire White
Admin Managers: Ms Holly Tuite and Ms Jessica Michelson
Consultant Clinical Geneticists
Dr Helen Brittain
Consultant in Clinical Genetics - special interest: Paediatric Developmental Disorders and Genomics. Part-time secondment to Genomics England Limited as a Senior Clinical Fellow in Rare Disease Genomics.
PA contact: Luke Hatton
Dr Trevor Cole
Consultant in Clinical Genetics - special interest: Retinoblastoma
PA contact: Annakay Henry-Miller
Dr Nicola Cooper
Deputy Clinical Lead-Education Lead
Consultant in Clinical Genetics - special interest: Neurogenetics
PA contact: Shirlie Clarke
Dr Helen Cox
Consultant in Clinical Genetics - special interest: in Cardiology
PA contact: Sanam Ali
Dr Sam Doyle
Consultant in Clinical Genetic s -special interest: Prenatal Genetics
PA contact: Shirlie Clarke
Dr Rachel Hart
Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Rare Disease Liaison Lead - special interest: Adult and Paediatric Cancers and Endocrinology
PA contact: Natalie Preece
Dr Rebecca Igbokwe
Consultant in Clinical Genetics – special interest: Endocrinology and Paraganglioma
PA contact: Annakay Henry-Miller
Dr Joanna Jarvis
Consultant in Clinical Genetics - special interest: Renal and Deafness
PA contact: Vivienne Tsimbli
Dr Derek Lim
Consultant in Clinical Genetics, NIHR Genetics Clinical Research Specialty Lead for West Midlands CRN - special interest: Birt-Hogg-Dube Syndrome & Imprinting disorders
PA contact : Sanam Ali
Dr Jenny Morton
Consultant in Clinical Genetics - special interests: Dysmorphology, Developmental Disorders, Craniofacial Malformations, Dermatogenetics, Preimplantation Genetic Yesting
PA contact: Toni Cooper
Dr Swati Naik
Consultant in Clinical Genetics - special interest: Developmental Disorders, Paediatric Genetics (Rapid Exome Sequencing Service, R14 Service Lead for West Midlands)
PA contact: Vivienne Tsimbli
Dr Kai Ren Ong
Deputy Clinical Lead, Cancer Lead
Consultant in Clinical Genetics - special interest: Cancer, Gorlin Syndrome
PA contact: Natalie Preece
Dr Deborah Osio
Deputy Clinical Lead, Clinical Governance and Audit Lead
Consultant in Clinical Genetics - special interest: Rare Vascular Diseases, Hereditable Thoracic Aortic Diseases; Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT); multiple Cerebral Cavernous Malformations (CCMs)
PA contact: Luke Hatton
Dr Corinna Powell
Consultant in Clinical Genetics
PA contact: Viki Daly
Professor Nicky Ragge
Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Professor in Medical Genetics (Oxford Brookes University), - special interest: Eye Genetics, Neurofibromatosis Types 1 and 2, Research – Lead Scientist for Developmental Eye Genetics Research Programme.
Email address: nragge@brookes.ac.uk; research coordinator dbax@brookes.ac.uk
Telephone 01865 484413 (Covid contact number: 07907 584358)
PA contact: Annakay Henry-Miller
Dr Saba Sharif
Consultant in Clinical Genetics - special interest: Cancer, Cardiac (aortopathies), Neurofibromatosis and related disorders (NF1/NF2/Schwannomatosis)
PA contact: Natalie Preece
Dr Suresh Somarathi
Consultant in Clinical Genetics - special interest: Paediatric Developmental Disorders, Cardiology
PA contact: Kerys Grainger
Dr Hannah Titheradge
Consultant in Clinical Genetics - special interest: Auto-Inflammatory and Primary Immunodeficiency Disorders
PA contact: Vivinne Tsimbli
Dr Julie Vogt
Consultant in Clinical Genetics - special interest: Paediatric Neurometabolic / Neuromuscular Disorders and Arthrogryposis
PA contact: Annakay Henry-Miller
Dr Denise Williams
Consultant in Clinical Genetics - special interests: Eyes; Foetal medicine, Rare Diabetes; Paediatric Genetics
PA contact: Toni Cooper
There are also 7 registrars employed within Clinical Genetics
Genetic Counsellors
Consultant Genetic Counsellors
Laura Boyes
Lead Genetic Counsellor
Anna Considine
Consultant Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Cancer Genetics
Peter Marks
Consultant Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Mainstreaming, Endocrine Genetics
Philippa Preece
Consultant Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Pre-Implantation Genetic Technology (PGT)
Principal Genetic Counsellors
Claire Dolling
Principal Genetic Counsellor
Specialist Interests: Neurogenetics
Claire Kulke
Principal Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Fetal Genomics Group, Neurogenetics
Fiona Beecroft
Principal Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Immunology Genetics
Frances Lane
Principal Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Inherited Cardiac Conditions
Gayle Vincent
Principal Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Pre-Implantation Genetic Technology (PGT)
Julie Hewitt
Principal Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Deafness, Prenatal Genetics
Marie O’Donnell
Principal Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Aortopathies
Phil Leonard
Principal Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Cancer Genetics
Genetic Counsellors & Specialist Nurses
Antoniya Ruseva
Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Eye Genetics
Asfa Ahmad
Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Consanguinity
Carolyn Smyth
Neurofibromatosis Specialist Advisor
Special Interests: Neurofibromatosis
Chris Platt
Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Neurogenetics
David Walker
Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Inherited Cardiac Conditions
Emma Rees
Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Eye Genetics
Edel Robinson
Genetic Practitioner
Special Interests: Haemoglobinopathies
Katrina Merrifield
Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Neurogenetics
Janet Hunt
Haemoglobinopathies Screening Nurse Practitioner
Special Interests: Sickle Cell Disease, Rare Haemoglobinopathies, Antenatal and Newborn Screening
Jo Curtis
Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Cancer Genetics, Differences in Sexual Development
Katherine Aitchison
Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Metabolic Genetics
Lucy Burgess
Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Familial Paragangliomas
Megan Dancer
Genetic Counsellor
Melanie Murrell
Neurofibromatosis Specialist Advisor
Special Interests: Neurofibromatosis
Natalie Warrington
Genetic Counsellor
Nezzy Evans
Genetic Counsellor
Rachel Price-Tate
Genetic Counsellor
Shagufta Khan
Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Metabolic/Neurometabolic Genetics
Sonia Ward
Genetic Counsellor
Sue Carless
Genetic Counsellor
Tom Austin
Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Paediatric Renal Genetics
Tricia Heaton (PhD)
Genetic Counsellor
Special Interests: Cancer Genetics
Admin Team
Team Leaders
Eleanor Carley
Hannah Holloway
Senior Administrators/PAs
Evanthia Tsimbili
Sanam Ali
Natalie Preece
Shirlie Clarke
Annakay Henry-Miller
Kerys Grainger
Toni Cooper-Finn
Victoria Daly
Lucy Lancashire
Team Administrators
Sharon Reeves
Fiona Wilks
Leanne Insley
Donna Brien
Ayesha Bashir
Rani Rayat
Gary Johal
Kiran Chumber
Clinical Information Co-ordinator
Malgorzata Baig
Admin Assistants
Chloe Paton
Rabia Sultan
Aisha Parveen
Rita Roosfeld-Korm