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Ron Zimmern

Ron Zimmern was appointed Director of the Public Health Genetics Unit in Cambridge in June 1997. He is also the Director of the Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park (from April 2002) and the Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge (from January 2003).

He graduated in 1971 following his medical training at Trinity College, Cambridge and the Middlesex Hospital, London. After specialising in neurology he obtained a law degree and entered public health medicine in 1983. He was Director of Public Health for Cambridge and Huntingdon Health Authority from 1991 to 1998. He is also an Associate Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, a Consultant in Public Health Medicine at Addenbrooke's Hospital and a Senior Associate at the Judge Institute of Management Studies. He is Chairman of the Diagnostic and Screening Panel of the UK's Health Technology Assessment programme, serves on the Genetics Commissioning Advisory Group and the Steering Group for the National Genetic Testing Network at the Department of Health, and is on the Council for the British Society of Human Genetics.

His special interests and expertise, in addition to Public Health Genetics, include strategic planning, the relationship between clinical services and teaching and research, priority setting in the NHS, and the law and ethics of medicine.

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