Jane Green (geneticist)
Professor Jane Green | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia |
| Occupation | Medical geneticist |
| Employer | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Awards | Knowledge Translation award |
Professor Jane S. Green PhD, OC ONL, Hon FCCMG, 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 Canadian College of Medical Geneticists (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
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Dr. Jane Green". Canadians for Health Research. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ Green, Jane S. (1995). Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Clinical and Genetic Screening Programs for Hereditary Tumour Syndromes (PhD). Memorial University of Newfoundland.
- ^ "Retirement Celebration for Dr. Jane Green, Discipline of Genetics..." Memorial University of Newfoundland. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ a b "2013 Recipients - Biographies - 2013 Order of Newfoundland and Labrador". Government of Newfoundland. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
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- Officers of the Order of Canada
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- Honorary Fellows of the Canadian College of Medical Geneticists
- University of British Columbia alumni
- Memorial University of Newfoundland faculty
- Memorial University of Newfoundland alumni
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