Bernadette Modell

Professor Bernadette Modell FRCP, FRCOG (born 1 August 1935 in London)[1] is a British geneticist, specialising in the study of thalassaemia.

Professor

Bernadette Modell

FRCP, FRCOG
Born (1935-08-01) 1 August 1935
London
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Alma mater
OccupationGeneticist
Employers
Websiteiris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=BCMOD56

Modell attended a convent school,[1] and then graduated in zoology, with genetics and embryology from the University of Oxford, in 1955.[2] She then undertook a doctorate in developmental biology at Cambridge University, qualifying in 1959.[2][3] She next studied medicine at Cambridge and at University College Hospital, qualifying in 1964.[2]

She spent the remainder of her career at University College London and at University College London Hospitals, mainly working on the treatment and prevention of thalassaemia major and retiring in 2000, after which she became Emeritus Professor of Community Genetics at UCL's Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education.[2]

She also served as Director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for Community Control of Hereditary Disorders.[2]

She is both a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG).[2]

Selected papers
  • Modell B, Khan M, Darlison M (2000). "Survival in β-thalassaemia major in the UK: data from the UK Thalassaemia Register." Lancet;355(9220): 2051–2. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02357-6
  • Modell B, Darlison M (2008). "Global epidemiology of haemoglobin disorders and derived service indicators." Bulletin of the World Health Organization;86:480–7. doi:10.2471/BLT.06.036673
  • Modell B, Darlison MW, Lawn JE (2018). "Historical overview of development in methods to estimate burden of disease due to congenital disorders." Journal of Community Genetics;9(4):341–5. doi:10.1007/s12687-018-0382-4

References
  1. Harper, Peter (14 December 2007). "Bernadette Modell" (PDF). Genetics and Medicine Historical Network. The European Society of Human Genetics. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  2. Emma M. Jones; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2014). Clinical Molecular Genetics in the UK c.1975–c.2000. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-902238-88-6. Wikidata Q29581803.
  3. "Ask the expert: clinical geneticists". World Health Organization. Archived from the original on 18 July 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2017.


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