About the Editors

Editor-in-Chief

Alisdair McNeill, DCH, FRCP, PhD, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Dr Alisdair McNeill is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Neurogenetics at the University of Sheffield and Consultant Clinical Geneticist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He graduated MBChB (Hons.) from the University Of Edinburgh Medical School in 2004. He undertook postgraduate medical training in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Edinburgh, and Clinical Genetics training in Birmingham with an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship at UCL. He obtained a certificate of completion of training in Clinical Genetics in 2015.He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 2017. He is both an active Clinical Geneticist and university researcher. Research interests focus upon identifying novel disease genes and improving clinical utilisation of genetic testing. An ongoing theme is identifying ways to help rare disease families engage with published research about their conditions, to help them benefit from the findings.

Section Editors

Genetic Services
Nadeem Qureshi, PhD, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Genomics Education and Implementation
Belinda McClaren, PhD, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Amy Nisselle, PhD, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Sam Riedijk, PhD, Clinical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Clinical Genetics
Jeanne Amiel, MD, PhD, Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France
Marta Bertoli, MD, The Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Elizabeth J. Bhoj, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Louise Bicknell, PhD, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Philippe Campeau, MD, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Noriko Miyake, MD, PhD, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Shahida Moosa, PhD, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
Shubha Phadke, DM, MD, Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College, Pune, India
Ben Pode-Shakked, MD, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Alessandra Renieri, MD, PhD, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Ileana Delia Sabau, MD, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

Neuromuscular Genetics
Mridul Johari, PhD, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Marco Savarese, PhD, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Ophthalmic Genetics
Linda Reis, MS, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Elena Semina, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Skeletal Dysplasia
Girisha Katta, DM, MD, PhD, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman; Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

Psychosocial Aspects
Felicity K. Boardman, PhD, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Tara Clancy, PhD, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Ramona Moldovan, PhD, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Molecular Genetics
Karen B. Avraham, PhD, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Simon Fisher, DPhil, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Yalda Jamshidi, PhD, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
Peter Robinson, MD, MSc, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, United States; Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
Martina Witsch-Baumgartner, PhD, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Cancer Genetics
Malak Abedalthagafi, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States
Patrick Benusiglio, MD, PhD, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Maurizio Genuardi, MD, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
Andrew Lindsay, PhD, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Laura Valle, PhD, Catalan Institute of Oncology, IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain
George Wiggins, PhD, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Population Genetics
Michael DeGiorgio, PhD, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States
Christian Dina, PhD, Nantes Université, Nantes, France
Manfred Kayser, PhD, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Markus Perola, MD, PhD, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare THL, Helsinki, Finland
Alberto Piazza, MD, PhD, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Statistical Genetics
Zoltan Kutalik, PhD, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Bertram Müller–Myhsok, MD, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
Inga Prokopenko, PhD, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Pharmacogenetics
Henk Jan Guchelaar, PharmD, PhD, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

Technologies
Paolo Fortina, MD, PhD, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Cardiogenetics
Roddy Walsh, PhD, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom

Genomic Variant Data
Julia Baptista, PhD, King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Complex Genetics and Indigenous Health
Megan Leask, PhD, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Skeletal Genetics/Mendelian Disease
Emma Wade, PhD, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

General Members
Giovanni Romeo, MD, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Social Media Editor
Seda S. Zonuzi, PhD, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom