Emma Wakeling MBBS, PhD

Dr. Emma Wakeling has been a consultant in clinical genetics at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) since 2019. Prior to this, she was a consultant at North West Thames Regional Genetics Service (NWTRGS) from 2004, where she was lead clinician for 4 years. At GOSH she provides clinics in Paediatric Genetics, particularly dysmorphology. She runs a specialist joint clinic with pediatric endocrinology for children with Silver-Russell syndrome and other growth disorders. She is also a member of the GOSH multidisciplinary team caring for children with Differences of Sex Development (DSD).

Dr Wakeling was previously Pan-Thames Training Programme Director for Clinical Genetics and a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee for Clinical Genetics. She is currently Treasurer of the Clinical Genetics Society. She is also a medical advisor to the Child Growth Foundation and the Silver-Russell Syndrome Global Alliance.

Dr Wakeling qualified with an MA from the University of Oxford (1989) and MBBS from the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals (1992). She was awarded a PhD by the University of London in 1999 for her work on Silver-Russell Syndrome.