Ingrid Winship is a clinician scientist and is the Inaugural Chair of Adult Clinical Genetics at the University of Melbourne and The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Her career has combined clinical practice, biomedical research and the translation of research into practice and policy.
While she works across many domains within clinical genetics, her research interests have been focused on colorectal cancer, and in particular the potential for cancer prevention. She has used the knowledge generated by her and other’s research to optimise and implement state of the art clinical genetic services in adult medicine, with a focus on familial cancer and cancer prevention. She is an expert in heritable skin disorders. As Melbourne Health’s Executive Director of Research (2006-2018) she facilitated the embedding of research into clinical practice in this large academic teaching hospital and established the Clinical Trials Centre on the city campus. She is a practicing clinician, providing academic and clinical leadership in the inherited cancer clinics. She served on a number of high level committees within Australia, and internationally; she is currently a Director of the Boards of the Australasian College of Dermatologists, the Australian Genome Research Facility and Global Variome and a member of the Health Research Strategy External Advisory Group for New Zealand.She is Chair of the Australian Health Ethics Committee and a member of the NHMRC Council.
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FEATURED Journal article
Cancer risks by gene, age, and gender in 6350 carriers of pathogenic mismatch repair variants: findings from the Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database.
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Clinical Geneticist
FAICD - Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
FACD - Fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists
FRACP - Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Credentials
Positions
Chair In Adult Clinical Genetics
Medicine - Royal Melbourne Hospital
Education
Doctor of Medicine
University of Cape Town
MBChB
University of Cape Town