Gareth Evans (geneticist)

Professor D. Gareth R. Evans FRCP FLSW (born May 1959) is a British medical geneticist.

Professor
Gareth Evans
FRCP FLSW FRCOG ad eundem, FLSW
Born1959 (age 64–65)
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Alma mater
OccupationMedical geneticist
Websitewww.breastcentre.manchester.ac.uk/Research-Groups/Gareth-Evans Edit this at Wikidata

Evans trained at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, specialising in paediatrics in the Army.[1] He then switched to genetics at Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester.[1]

He served as Medical Officer to the Royal Hussars as an RAMC officer between 1984–1986.[1]

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.[1][2]

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.[1] He also served as Chief Investigator for two National Institute for Health Research–funded projects on breast cancer prediction from 2009.[1] He is a two term NIHR Senior investigator (now emeritus).[3]

He was co-editor of Risk Assessment and Management in Cancer Genetics.[1]

In 2020, he was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[4]

Works

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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.

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g 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.
  2. ^ "Research Groups". Manchester University. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
  3. ^ "NIHR announces latest Senior Investigator appointments | StaffNet | The University of Manchester". www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  4. ^ 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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