John Burn (geneticist)

For other people of the same name, see John Burn.
Professor John Burn
Born (1952-02-06) 6 February 1952[1]
Institutions Newcastle University
Great Ormond Street Hospital[2]
Royal Victoria Infirmary[1]
Alma mater Newcastle University[1]
Notable awards Knight Bachelor (2010)
FRCP, FRCPE
FRCOG, FRCPCH
FMedSci (2000)[1]
Doctor of Medicine (1990)
Spouse Linda M. Wilson[1]
Website
www.ncl.ac.uk/biomedicine/research/groups/profile/john.burn

Sir John Burn (born 6 February 1952) FRCP FRCPE FRCOG FRCPCH FMedSci is a British Professor of Clinical Genetics at Newcastle University. He is medical director and head of the Institute of Human Genetics, and lead clinician for the National Health Service North East.[2][3][4][5]

Education

Burn was born and raised in North East England. He was educated at Barnard Castle Grammar School, now Teesdale School[1] and Newcastle University Medical School from 1976 to 1980 from which he was awarded a Bachelor of Medical Sciences degree in 1973, a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1976 and a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1990.[1]

Career

From 1989 to 2004, Burn led the Northern Genetics Service team.[6][7]

Awards

Burn received a knighthood for services to medicine in 2009.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "BURN, Sir John". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  2. 1 2 John Burn in Debretts
  3. ↑ Burn, J. (2013). "Should we sequence everyone's genome? Yes". BMJ 346: f3133. doi:10.1136/bmj.f3133. PMID 23694691.
  4. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  5. ↑ John Burn's publications in Google Scholar
  6. ↑ Sir John Burn, Veterans at Ease
  7. ↑ Bertagnolli, M. M.; Eagle, C. J.; Zauber, A. G.; Redston, M.; Solomon, S. D.; Kim, K.; Tang, J.; Rosenstein, R. B.; Wittes, J.; Corle, D.; Hess, T. M.; Woloj, G. M.; Boisserie, F. D. R.; Anderson, W. F.; Viner, J. L.; Bagheri, D.; Burn, J.; Chung, D. C.; Dewar, T.; Foley, T. R.; Hoffman, N.; MacRae, F.; Pruitt, R. E.; Saltzman, J. R.; Salzberg, B.; Sylwestrowicz, T.; Gordon, G. B.; Hawk, E. T.; Apc Study, I. (2006). "Celecoxib for the Prevention of Sporadic Colorectal Adenomas". New England Journal of Medicine 355 (9): 873–884. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa061355. PMID 16943400.
  8. ↑ BBC News - Knighthood for leading geneticist Professor Burn


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