Consultant Clinical Geneticist
Dr. William Reardon
MD MRCPI DCH FRCPCH FRCP
Biographical Details
Dr. Willie Reardon read Medicine at University College Dublin, graduating with an honours degree in 1984. Thereafter, he undertook general training in medicine and paediatrics in approved Dublin teaching hospitals and associated centres before embarking on specialist training in clinical genetics at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in 1988. He completed his doctoral thesis while there, the degree of MD being awarded in 1991. Thereafter he spent a year working at the internationally acclaimed centre for inherited neuromuscular diseases in Cardiff before returning to London. He was appointed a Consultant to the Great Ormond Street Clinical Genetics Unit in 1995, holding the title of Reader at University College London. He returned to work in Dublin in 1999, taking the post of Consultant Clinical Geneticist at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children.
Dr Reardon was Staff Physician and Visiting Professor of Paediatric Genetics at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto from October 2007- Dec 2007 and retains an ongoing connection with the Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics at that Hospital.
Dr. Reardon’s training involved working beside many internationally renowned figures in the field of clinical genetics, most specifically Dr. Michael Baraitser and Professor Robin Winter, with whom he published over 60 papers in peer reviewed journals.
Related Links
UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH)
The National Centre for Medical Genetics
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto