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| Occupation: | Consultant Clinical Geneticist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Qualifications: | MB,BCh, BAO, MRCP (I), DCH, MD, FRCPCH, FRCP
| Explanation of | Qualifications: Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery | Bachelor of the Arts of Obstetrics Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Diploma in Child Health Doctor of Medicine Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Organisation: | Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin | Address: |
National Centre for Medical Genetics |
Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children Crumlin Dublin Office Telephone: | 00 353 1 409 6811 | Home Telephone: | 00 353 1 219 6922 | Fax: | 00 353 1 456 0953 | Email: |
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|  : williereardon.com |
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(none at present) | Areas of Expertise: |
Foetal screening and antenatal diagnosis | Application of genetic tests in diagnosis and practice Obstetrics and birth injury Paediatrics and neonatology Paediatric diseases Congenital abnormalities Malformation syndromes Medical genetics Cerebral palsy Mental handicap Non-accidental injury Neurology and neurosurgery Craniosynostosis and skull malformations Inherited deafness and and hearing impairment Syndromology and syndromic forms of deafness Advances in our understanding of hereditary diseases (Main research interests are in the areas of inherited deafness and the molecular basis of birth defects). Dr Willie Reardon deals with medico-legal questions involving Clinical Genetics - in particular, determining whether childhood handicap / disability is the result of an inherited disease or the mismanagement of obstetric care (i.e. clinical negligence). He has been undertaking expert witness reports in medico-legal cases since 1996. He has acquired wide experience in this area of practice, most commonly acting for the defence but, occasionally for the prosecution. He has also been instructed in criminal cases and by insurance companies when a geneticists opinion was required. Dr. Reardon has given several invited seminars to UK legal firms as part of their continuing professional development programmes. Biographical details :- Dr Willie Reardon read Medicine at University College Dublin, graduating with an honours degree in 1984. Thereafter, he undertook general training in medicine and paediatrics in approved Dublin teaching hospitals and associated centres before embarking on specialist training in clinical genetics at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in 1988. He completed his doctoral thesis while there, the degree of MD being awarded in 1991. Thereafter he spent a year working at the internationally acclaimed centre for inherited neuromuscular diseases in Cardiff before returning to London. He was appointed a Consultant to the Great Ormond Street Clinical Genetics Unit in 1995, holding the title of Reader at University College London. He returned to work in Dublin in 1999, taking the post of Consultant Clinical Geneticist at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children. Dr Reardon's training involved working beside many internationally renowned figures in the field of clinical genetics. Dr Reardon will be taking up a position as visiting Professor of Paediatric Genetics at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, from October to December 2007. Dr Reardon is co-editor of 'Hereditary Hearing Loss and Its Syndromes' (info), and author of the forthcoming book on Dysmorphology (the study of congenital malformations), 'The Bedside Dysmorphologist (info). NB: (1) access to London consulting rooms for examination of patients (2) willing to attend case conferences/court appointments throughout UK & Ireland (3) initial reports normally submitted within four weeks of instruction Geographical area of work : All of UK and Ireland |
