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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Awards
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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