Mary Petrou

Dr Mary Petrou in Consultant Clinical Molecular Geneticist at UCL Hospitals and Honorary Senior Lecturer at UCL. She is Head of the Haemoglobinopathy Genetics Service at UCLH. Mary did her doctorate at UCL and specialised in Haemoglobinopathy Genetics at UCL/UCLH. Currently a member of the NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme laboratory subgroup committee and committee member of the UK Forum for Haemoglobin Disorders which both drive forward policy in prevention and treatment of haemoglobin disorders.

Her research interests are Prevention of haemoglobinopathies - screening, genetic counselling, prenatal diagnosis, Molecular genetics, Preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Genetic samples are analysed in the Genetics laboratory in Pathology.

Her publications are as follows:
Petrou M, Screening for Beta thalassaemia, Indian Journal of Medical Genetics, 2010;16 ,1, 1-5.
Petrou M, Preimplantation Gentic Diagnosis, 2009; 33,S1, 7-13.
Petrou M, Genetic Counselling and Ethics in Molecular Diagnostics, 2010, 537-548 chapter in Molecular Diagnostics , edited by G Patrinos, WJ Ansorge. Published by Elsevier.