Born and educated in north-east England

1970-80: Medical training and postgraduate qualification in Medicine and Paediatrics

1980-84: Senior Registrar in Clinical Genetics, Great Ormond Street, London

1984 to date: Consultant in Clinical Genetics in Newcastle upon Tyne

1989-2001: Clinical Director, Northern Genetics Service

1991 to date: Professor of Clinical Genetics, Newcastle University

Patrick Chinnery qualified in Medicine in 1992 and became a Wellcome Trust Training Fellow in 1995 studying the molecular basis of human mitochondrial disease. In 1998 he began post-doctoral research as a Wellcome Trust Advanced Clinical Research Fellow exploring the relationship between mitochondrial genotype and the clinical features of mitochondrial disease and the mechanisms of mitochondrial inheritance. A Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow since 2003, he continues to study the inheritance and expression of mitochondrial disorders both in the clinic and in the molecular laboratory, running several clinical trials in rare genetic diseases. He was appointed Professor of Neurogenetics in 2004 and has been studying mitochondrial mechanisms in late-onset multi-factorial diseases including stroke and Parkinson's disease. he became a Fellow in the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2009, an NIHR Senior Investigator in 2010, and was recently appointed Director of Newcastle University's Institute of Human Genetics.

I am the lead for Cancer Genetics. I have my own clinical workload, supervise the case load of Genetic Counsellors, and liaise via multidisciplinary team meetings to provide genetic expertise to secondary care. I also have a strategic role in planning provision of Cancer Genetics Services. My non clinical work includes roles in information governance as well as in national research projects.

I trained in Cambridge and London before moving to Newcastle in 2003. I have been a Consultant here since 2009 and my main clinical work involves patient care across Cumbria. I am also responsible for the training of junior doctors in the department.

I work part-time (2 days per week) in Clinical Genetics.

I qualified in medicine in 1995 and my initial training was at King George Medical University in India. Further training included experience in older people’s mental health services in Newcastle and training in Neuropsychiatry. I have a special interest in Genetics of neurodegenerative conditions, in particular Huntington’s disease and early onset dementia. Research interests include study of Behavioural features of Huntington’s disease and I am working in collaboration with the European Huntington’s disease network to further the understanding of Huntington’s disease.

Following junior hospital posts in Paediatrics I spent six years in research and specialist registrar posts in Clinical Genetics. I became a Consultant at Guy's Hospital London in 1999 and took up my current job in Newcastle in 2004.

My medical training was in Dundee and I did my basic medical training in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Since 1989 I have worked in Newcastle training in Genetics with a specific clinical and research interest in inherited neuromuscular diseases.