Genes - we all have them and we're all affected by them, often in unknown ways.
Professor Edwin Kirk is both a clinical geneticist and a genetic
pathologist, a rare combination. As a clinician, he sees patients
at Sydney Children's Hospital, where he has worked for more than 20
years; his laboratory practice is in the New South Wales Health
Pathology Genomics Laboratory at Randwick.
Kirk is a conjoint appointee in the School of Women's and
Children's Health at the University of New South Wales, an
experienced medical educator, and currently Chief Examiner in
Genetics for the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. He
is also a respected researcher, working in the fields of cardiac
genetics, metabolic diseases, and intellectual disability, as well
as studying reproductive carrier screening, and is a co-author of
more than 100 publications in scientific journals, which have been
cited by other researchers more than 4,000 times. He is one of the
co-leads and public faces of the $20 million Mackenzie's Mission
carrier screening project.
Kirk lives in Sydney with his wife and three children. In his spare
time, he competes in ocean swimming races, slowly, and plays the
saxophone, loudly.
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