Speakers

Dr Helen Hanson is a Consultant in Clinical Genetics at the Peninsula Regional Genetics Service at the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter and Associate Professor in Clinical Cancer Genetics at the University of Exeter Medical School. 

Dr Hanson qualified in medicine in 2002 from Guy’s, Kings and St Thomas’ Medical School, London and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2005 and a Fellow in 2017. She completed her Clinical Genetics Training at St. George’s Hospital and Guy’s Hospital and has previously been a Consultant at the Royal Marsden and St. George’s Hospital in London, before taking up her current post in September 2023. 

Dr Hanson has a strong clinical and research interest in improving the diagnosis and management of individuals with an inherited predisposition to cancer, focused on addressing the gap between gene discovery and clinical care. She has collaborated nationally and internationally in the development of clinical guidelines for individuals with inherited cancer predisposition, set up a National Cancer Genetics MDT and co-led development and implementation of a National Inherited Cancer Predisposition Register in England.