Consultants

Qualifications: BMedSci, MBBS, MD, FRCP

Registration: GMC 34844988

Professional bodies: Cancer Genetics Group (Chair), British Society for Genetic Medicine (Committee), Clinical Reference Group for Medical Genetics (Member,) Clinical Genetics Society (Committee), Joint Committee for Medical Genetics.

Role: Consultant in Clinical Genetics and Clinical Lead.

Special interest: Cancer Genetics and Adult endocrine malignancies.

Contact: Tel: +44 161 276 6322; Fax: +44 161 276 6145

Biography:

Dr Fiona Lalloo is a consultant in Cancer Genetics. She qualified from Newcastle University in 1990 and trained in adult medicine before moving into Genetics in 1994. Her MD was undertaken on the genetics of breast and ovarian cancer. She was appointed consultant in 2001. She has been involved at a national level with the recruitment of trainees into clinical genetics and is currently Chair of the Cancer Genetics Group. Dr Lalloo is involved with teaching of both undergraduates and postgraduate medicine devising, instigating and running the first national course on cancer genetics. She has maintained her research interest in breast and ovarian cancer and is the author of “Genetics for Oncologists”. Her clinical interests include breast, ovarian and bowel cancer and endocrine malignancies. She is currently Clinical Lead for Genetic Medicine.

Clinics: General familial cancer genetics at Saint Mary’s Hospital and Preston. Endocrine neoplasia and VHL clinics.