Professor Jane S. Green PhD, ,
Hon FCCMG,
FCAHS (born 1943) is a Canadian
medical geneticist
Medical genetics is the branch
tics in that human genetics is a field of scientific research that may or may not apply to medicine, while medical genetics refers to the application of genetics to medical care. For example, research on the caus ...
.
Life
Green studied Zoology, obtaining a BSc in 1964, and Drosophila Genetics, obtaining an MSc in 1966, both from the
University of British Columbia.
She moved to
Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
in 1967.
She helped to establish an Ocular Genetics Clinic from 1978 to 1986 and, after a family was referred there with
Von Hippel–Lindau disease, began a cancer genetics screening programme.
She became a faculty member at
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Memorial University of Newfoundland, also known as Memorial University or MUN (), is a public university in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, based in St. John's, with satellite campuses in Corner Brook, elsewhere in Newfoundland and ...
in 1988 and obtained a PhD there in 1995; her dissertation was on the development of clinical and genetic screening programmes for hereditary cancer syndromes.
She was appointed Professor in the Discipline of Genetics there in 2002,
and retired in April 2016.
In 2008 she received the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Knowledge Translation award. She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the
Canadian College of Medical Geneticists (Hon FCCMG) in the same year.
She received the CCMG's Founders Award in 2012 for her contribution to developing genetics services in Newfoundland and Canada,
and was awarded the
Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2013.
She is also a
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
The Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) is one of three national academies that comprise the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), the highest honour granted to scholars in Canada. The two other CCA academies are the Royal Society of Canada ...
(FCAHS).
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1943 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Members of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador
Officers of the Order of Canada
Canadian geneticists
People from Newfoundland (island)
Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences
Honorary Fellows of the Canadian College of Medical Geneticists
University of British Columbia alumni
Academic staff of the Memorial University of Newfoundland
Memorial University of Newfoundland alumni
Canadian women geneticists
20th-century Canadian women scientists
21st-century Canadian women scientists