Professor Frances Flinter is a consultant Clinical Geneticist and Caldicott Guardian at Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and she has a personal chair in Clinical Genetics at King’s College, London. She trained at Guy’s Hospital Medical School and worked in paediatrics before a 3 year doctoral research post in the Paediatric Research Unit at Guy’s mapping the gene for Alport’s syndrome (hereditary nephritis with deafness) led to specialisation in clinical genetics. Her particular interests include the genetics of inherited renal disease and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Frances is the consultant geneticist on the Guy’s PGD team, which is the largest and most successful in the UK; more than 350 healthy babies have now been born as a result of this programme. From 2000 – 2007 Prof. Flinter was also the clinical director of the Evelina Children’s Hospital.

Prof. Flinter has been a member of the Human Genetics Commission since 2005 and chaired two working parties on the regulation of Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) genetic testing and preconception genetic screening. She was also a member of the working group that produced a report on reproductive decisions and genetic technologies called ‘Making Babies’.