Angela Manion Douglas MBE

Angela is a Consultant Clinical Scientist and has worked in the NHS in Genetics for over 38 years, having worked at Liverpool Women’s Hospital for the past 22 years. She is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, and an Honorary Fellow of the Academy for Healthcare Science. She has worked as the Scientific Director of the Cheshire and Merseyside Genetics Service, at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, for 10 years, where she was the Organisational Lead Healthcare Scientist, and more recently led the NW Coast GMC delivering the 100,000 Genome Project as the Clinical Programme Director.

In 2012, Angela was nominated as President of the British Society for Genetic Medicine, having previously been the Chairman of the ACC and the ACGS. Angela was a member of the working groups (Service Delivery, Innovation, and Bioinformatics) of the Human Genomics Strategy Group (GSG) that provided the evidence and recommendations for the Department of Health’s Genomics Review in 2012, and continues to work with the group to ensure their recommendations are delivered.