Shirley Victoria Penrose Hodgson, FRCP, FRSB (born 22 February 1945) is a British geneticist.[1]
Shirley Hodgson | |
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| Born | 22 February 1945 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Geneticist |
| Employer | St George's, University of London |
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| Children | 2 |
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Biography edit
Hodgson studied at Somerville College, Oxford. She worked as a GP, then performed as a locum in clinical genetics at Guy's Hospital, saying she found the subject "irresistible".[2] She became Senior Registrar in Clinical Genetics for the South Thames (East) Regional Genetics Centre and Honorary Senior Registrar at Hammersmith Hospital, London, from 1983 to 1988; then Consultant Geneticist at Addenbrooke's Hospital from 1988 to 1990.[2] In the 1990s, she led the regional cancer genetics service at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital.[2]
She has been a Professor of Cancer Genetics at St George's, University of London since 2003.[2][3]
Hodgson is the daughter of Lionel Penrose and his wife Margaret Leathes and the granddaughter of the physiologist John Beresford Leathes. She has three older brothers, Oliver, Sir Roger, and Jonathan Penrose. She married Humphrey Hodgson in 1971.[4]
She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.
Works edit
Hodgson is the author of many academic papers and several books, including:
- Hodgson, Shirley V.; Foulkes, William D.; Eng, Charis; Maher, Eamonn (2013). A Practical Guide to Human Cancer Genetics. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1-4471-2375-0.
- Foulkes, William D.; Hodgson, Shirley V. (1998). Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer: Clinical, Predictive and Ethical Perspectives. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-56340-6.
- Haites (2002). Patrick J. Morrison; Shirley V. Hodgson; Neva E. (eds.). Familial breast and ovarian cancer : genetics, screening and management. Cambridge Univ. Press. ISBN 9780521803731.
References edit
- ^ "Prof Shirley Hodgson Authorised Biography – Debrett's People of Today, Prof Shirley Hodgson Profile". Debretts.com. Archived from the original on 7 December 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ "Biography — St George's, University of London". Sgul.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
- ^ ‘HODGSON, Prof. Humphrey Julian Francis’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 30 March 2013
External links edit
- Shirley Hodgson on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website