Lecturer
Dr Elizabeth Emma Palmer
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES (2014-2019)
PhD conferred November 2019. Application of Massively Parallel Sequencing for the Diagnosis of Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies
USW nominee for CSL Florey Next Generation Award (2018); UNSW Medicine Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research by a Higher Degree Student (2018); Senior Presenter prize, UNSW Paediatric Research week (2018); School of Women and Children’s Health, UNSW Junior Conjoint Award (2018
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, EXETER COLLEGE, UK (1995-1999)
1ST BM PRE-CLINICAL MEDICINE.
BA HONS IN PSYCHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND PHYSIOLOGY. CLASS 1.
Scholar of Exeter College, Fitzgerald Prize and Collection Prizes for academic achievements
MBBS ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL, LONDON, UK (1999-2002)
Nominee for the Gold Medal, London Medical Schools.
Distinctions in Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Subject prizes for achievements in examinations and clinical placements. Boldero, Hart and Dawkins Prize in Paediatrics, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Student Prize Winner, 2nd Philip Seth Belasco and Douglas Cree Prize in Medicine, Horace Jules Prize in Public Health, Bernard Hart Prize in Psychiatry, John Murray Prize in Pharmacology, Joint 2nd Lydell and Leopold Hudson Prize in Surgery, Joint Hetley and Atchison Clinical Prize. Certificates of Merit (1st, 2nd and 3rd Clinical Years) for overall clinical performance
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS (CLINICAL GENETICS)(2012)
High Distinction in Unit in Human Genetics (Macquarie University).
DIPLOMA IN TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE, LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE, ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, UK (2006).
The Duncan Prize for best student.
DIPLOMA FROM THE ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNAECOLOGISTS (2005).
Award for Outstanding Achievement, DRANZCOG oral examination.
MEMBERSHIP OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PAEDIATRICS AND CHILD HEALTH, UK (2005)
ASSOCIATE FELLOW OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY, UK (2021)
Medicine & Health
Discipline of Paediatrics
Dr (Elizabeth) Emma Palmer is a Clinical Geneticist at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) and university lecturer at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney Australia. She is passionate about improving the patient journey for all with rare genetic conditions and their families. Her work aims to improve the recognition of the possibility of genetic conditions by improving clinicain education about rare diseases, maximising the diagnostic yield of genetic tests and optimising patient care by linking families to best practice guidlines, treatments and supports. She has over 45 peer reviewed journal articles, including those describing 9 new genetic conditions.
She leads the following collaborative research programs:
1. Gene2Care, an innovative rare genetic disease program at SCHN, to ensure all families with genetic conditions have the option of participating in research and being linked to undiagnosed disease pathways and clinical trials.
2. GeneEQUAL a co-design project to improve equity and accessibility of genomic testing and counselling to people with intellectual disabilities and
3. CoGENES an interdisciplinary research team improving diagnoses, support and treatments for children with rare genetic epilepsies and their families, and
4. RArEST a collaborative project to improve awareness, education, training and support for rare disease across Australia.
She is also a chief investigator on many national and international rare disease programs including the newly launched national undiagnosed disease program UDN-Aus, the Australian Functional Genomic Network and the Diagnostic Working Group of the Undiagnosed Disease Network International.
She strives to ensure that the patient and family voice is always central to all her research.
Phone
93825583
Location
Room 810, Level 8, The Bright Alliance Building,
UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA
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Recent awards include:
- UNSW nominee for CSL Florey Next Generation Award (2018)
- UNSW Medicine Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research by a Higher Degree Student (2018)
- School of Women and Children’s Health, UNSW Junior Conjoint Award (2018)
- Senior Presenter prize, UNSW Paediatric Research week (2008)
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My research goals all have the patient and family voice at their core and apply codesign and inclusive research methdology.
Theme 1: How to acheive genetic diagnoses in the most equitable, acceptable and cost effective manner.
Theme 2: How to best leverage a genetic diagnosis to improve the life long model of care for individuals with rare conditions.
Theme 3: How to deliver integrated holistic care that undestands and responds to the mental health, psychosocial, economic and information needs of families and carers of individuals with rare genetic conditions
Theme 4: How to build and deliver appropriate and respectful genomic services for priority populations including individuals with learning disabilities, from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, from regional and rural communities and those who have culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and socio-economic disadvantage.
COGENES Improving Clinical Care and Support for Children with Severe Early-Onset Epilepsies and Their Families.
- Qualitative study: The Information Needs Of Parents Of Children With A Genetic, Or Suspected Genetic, Form Of Epilepsy (HREC/SCHN). Collaborator Professor Claire Wakefield, UNSW. This qualitative study is asking parents of children with genetic epilepsy about their information and support needs to inform the development of multimedia information resources for families and doctors of children with a genetic epilepsy, through the PENNSW website. http://www.pennsw.com.au/
- Coordinator: Inaugural NSW Sydney Children’s Hospital Genetic Epilepsy Family Day (October 2018).
- Speaker: Genetic Epilepsy Team Australia Family conference (2019) and invited participant in round table discussion, Epilepsy Foundation, Victoria (2019)
- Podcast interviewee: GETA/ SCN2A Alliance (a support group for genetic epilepsy) “Ask the Geneticist” October 2019
- The CoGenes group is establishing a Community Reference Board for our research.
Moderator for 8 genetic causes of ID/ASD on the Human Disease Gene and GenIDA Websites
http://humandiseasegenes.nl https://genida.unistra.fr/ (SCN2A, ZSWIM6, THOC2, ATN1, IQSEC2, PUM1, PCHDH19, KCNT2).
Podcast on genetic testing in epilepsy: https://scn2aaustralia.org/podcast-8/
Lecturer for UNSW Medicine (Phase 1 and Phase 3); University of Sydney Masters of Genomic Medicine; RACP Fellowship for Clinical Genetics; University of Sydney Masters of Genetic Counselling. Lead Convenor UNSW Short Course Genomics for the Practicing Clinician