Contacts
Tel: 020 7188 1381
Areas of expertise: clinical genetics, renal genetics, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis
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Biography
Professor Frances Flinter has worked in the clinical genetics department for 30 years and been a consultant since 1994. She also has a personal chair with King’s College, London. She accepts referrals of children and adult patients with a wide variety of genetic problems, but not cancer genetics patients.
Positions and memberships
- Rare diseases lead for the South London Genomics Medicine Centre (100,000 genome project)
- Caldicott guardian of Guy’s and St Thomas’
- Member of the HFEA Scientific review group on mitochondrial replacement therapies, 2016
- Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics working group on mitochondrial replacement therapies, 2011-12
- President of the Clinical Genetics Society, 2009-2011
- Member of the Human Genetics Commission, 2000-2012
- Chair, Medical Genetics Clinical Reference Group
- Clinical Director of children’s services and genetics, 2000-2007
- Medical advisor to Alport UK patient support group
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Education and training
Frances did her undergraduate training at Guy’s Hospital Medical School. She subsequently trained in children's at the Westminster Children’s Hospital and Guy’s Hospital before a period of research mapping the gene for Alport’s syndrome led to speciality training in clinical genetics.
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Specialist interests
- Inherited kidney disease (especially Alport’s syndrome)
- Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis
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Research interests
- Alport’s syndrome
- Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis
- Regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic testing
- Pre-conception genetic testing