| ProfessorGareth EvansFRCP FLSW FRCOG ad eundem, FLSW | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 (age 64–65) |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Medical geneticist |
| Website | www |
Professor D. Gareth R. Evans FRCP FLSW (born May 1959) is a British medical geneticist.
Evans trained at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, specialising in paediatrics in the Army. He then switched to genetics at Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester.
He served as Medical Officer to the Royal Hussars as an RAMC officer between 1984–1986.
From 1990 to 1992 he undertook an MD in cancer genetics developing his career specialisation in neurofibromatosis type 2, while working as a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at Manchester University, later becoming an Honorary Professor of Medical Genetics there, and a Consultant in Medical Genetics and Cancer Epidemiology with the Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust.
He served as chair of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence's Familial Breast Cancer Guideline Development Group from 2002 to 2010, becoming its clinical lead in 2011. He also served as Chief Investigator for two National Institute for Health Research–funded projects on breast cancer prediction from 2009. He is a two term NIHR Senior investigator (now emeritus).
He was co-editor of Risk Assessment and Management in Cancer Genetics.
In 2020, he was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Works
He has published over 1200 articles including more than 1068 peer reviewed articles
- Fiona Lalloo; Bronwyn Kerr; Jan M Friedman; D Gareth Evans, eds. (2005). Risk Assessment and Management in Cancer Genetics. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-852960-6.
References
- ^ Emma M. Jones; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2013). Clinical Cancer Genetics: Polyposis and Familial Colorectal Cancer c.1975-c.2010. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-902238-85-5. Wikidata Q29581797.
- "Research Groups". Manchester University. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- "NIHR announces latest Senior Investigator appointments | StaffNet | The University of Manchester". www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
- Wales, The Learned Society of. "Gareth Evans". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
He has published over 820 articles and book chapters
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