Professor Dhavendra Kumar is a Consultant in Clinical Genetics at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff University, United Kingdom. He is the lead Clinical Geneticist for Clinical Cardiovascular Genetics. He is the Honorary Professor to the Genomic Policy Unit at the University of South Wales, UK. He is also the Adjunct Professor to the Public Health Genetics Unit at the Chinese Capital Medical University, Beijing (China) and the Bio-Medical Research Unit at the King George's Medical University, Lucknow (India). During his clinical genetics career spanning over 30 years, Professor Kumar has engaged in a number of special interest developments particularly clinical dysmorphology, paediatric metabolic medicine, neurogenetics, cancer genetics and cardiovascular genetics. Currently he leads the multi-disciplinary inherited cardiac conditions service at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff and the Research/ Development lead for cardiovascular genetics. He has initiated development and setting up of the International Cardiovascular Genomics Consortium as part of the Human Variome Project's 'Disease Specific Databases' development program.
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