Prof Zosia Miedzybrodzka

Zosia Miedzybrodzka is Professor of Medical Genetics at University of Aberdeen and a practising clinical geneticist (doctor that specialises in genetic conditions and testing). She leads the NHS North of Scotland clinical genetics service and is director of the NHS Grampian genomics and molecular pathology laboratory. 

In addition to local and national leadership roles in genomic medicine she has a passion for creating evidence for the use of genomics in healthcare. Using molecular, quantitative and qualitative and economic approaches to evaluation, she has worked on wide range of conditions and testing strategies from her PhD on cystic fibrosis carrier screening to, more recently, lead Scotland in the 100,000 genomes project and establishing a BRCA1 founder variant screening programme for those of Orkney origin.