Shirley Hodgson
{{short description|British geneticist}}
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Shirley Victoria Penrose Hodgson (born 22 February 1945) is a British geneticist.{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/h/22173/Shirley%20Victoria+HODGSON.aspx|title=Prof Shirley Hodgson Authorised Biography – Debrett's People of Today, Prof Shirley Hodgson Profile|publisher=Debretts.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091207151633/http://www.debretts.com:80/people/biographies/browse/h/22173/Shirley%20Victoria%20HODGSON.aspx|archive-date=7 December 2009|url-status=dead|accessdate=28 March 2019}}
Biography
Hodgson studied at Somerville College, Oxford. She worked as a GP, then performed as a locum in clinical genetics at Guy's Hospital, saying she found the subject "irresistible".{{cite Q|Q29581797}} She became Senior Registrar in Clinical Genetics for the South Thames (East) Regional Genetics Centre and Honorary Senior Registrar at Hammersmith Hospital, London, from 1983 to 1988; then Consultant Geneticist at Addenbrooke's Hospital from 1988 to 1990. In the 1990s, she led the regional cancer genetics service at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital.
She has been a Professor of Cancer Genetics at St George's, University of London since 2003.{{cite web|url=http://www.sgul.ac.uk/research/researchers/g-k/shirley-hodgson |title=Biography — St George's, University of London |publisher=Sgul.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2013-03-30}}
Hodgson is the daughter of Lionel Penrose and his wife Margaret Leathes and the granddaughter of the physiologist John Beresford Leathes. She has three older brothers, Oliver, Sir Roger, and Jonathan Penrose. She married Humphrey Hodgson in 1971.‘HODGSON, Prof. Humphrey Julian Francis’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U20394, accessed 30 March 2013]
She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.
Works
Hodgson is the author of many academic papers and several books, including:
- {{Cite book| publisher = Springer Science & Business Media| isbn = 978-1-4471-2375-0| last1 = Hodgson| first1 = Shirley V.| last2 = Foulkes| first2 = William D.| last3 = Eng| first3 = Charis| last4 = Maher| first4 = Eamonn| title = A Practical Guide to Human Cancer Genetics| year=2013}}
- {{Cite book| publisher = Cambridge University Press| isbn = 978-0-521-56340-6| last1 = Foulkes| first1 = William D.| last2 = Hodgson| first2 = Shirley V.| title = Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer: Clinical, Predictive and Ethical Perspectives| year= 1998}}
- {{cite book|last1=Haites|editor1= Patrick J. Morrison |editor2=Shirley V. Hodgson|editor3= Neva E. |title=Familial breast and ovarian cancer : genetics, screening and management |year=2002 |publisher=Cambridge Univ. Press |isbn=9780521803731}}
References
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Category:Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford
Category:Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Biology