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Dr Ron Zimmern, Chairman, PHG Foundation
Ron Zimmern is a Public Health Physician with a special interest in public health
genomics and personalized medicine. He is Chairman of the Foundation for
Genomics and Population Health, the ‘PHG Foundation’, the successor to the
Public Health Genetics Unit which he established in Cambridge in June 1997 and
on which he served as its Director until 2010.
Ron graduated in 1971 following medical training at Trinity College, Cambridge
and the Middlesex Hospital, London. He specialized initially in neurology, and
was appointed Lecturer at the Clinical School in Cambridge in 1976. He obtained
a law degree at Cambridge in 1983, after which he trained in public health
medicine. He was Director of Public Health for Cambridge and Huntingdon
Health Authority from 1991 to 1998, and of the Institute of Public Health at the
University of Cambridge from 2002 to 2008. He was for many years an Associate
Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and has been an Honorary Consultant in
Public Health Medicine at Addenbrooke's Hospital.
Ron has served on many national committees concerned with genomics in the
UK since 1997. He has an Honorary Professorship in Public Health at the
University of Hong Kong and sits on the Management Committee of its Centre
for Medical Ethics and Law. He is also a member of the External Advisory
Committee of the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Law, Medicine and Life
Sciences within the Law Faculty; and of the Centre for Personalized Medicine at
St Anne’s College, Oxford. He is a Life Fellow of Hughes Hall in Cambridge and
a Fellow of Hong Kong University and of the University of Cardiff. He now
serves as a Non-Executive Director of Papworth Hospital and on the Ethics
Advisory Committee of Genomics England. His special interests and expertise,
in addition to public health genomics and personalized medicine, include strategic
planning, the relationship between clinical services and teaching and research,
priority setting in the NHS, and the law and ethics of medicine.
Note: Abstracts and Biographies are subject to change
Contact Information
Contact LML
Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences
University of Cambridge
lml@law.cam.ac.uk
http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk
Contact CMEL
Centre for Medical Ethics and Law
The University of Hong Kong
cmel@hku.hk
www.cmel.hku.hk
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