
speaker
Emma Burkitt-wright
MBChB, PhD, FRCP
Medicine
Clinical Genetics
Manchester, England
Dr. Emma Burkitt-Wright is a consultant clinical geneticist at the Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, and an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester. Her PhD on germline disorders of the Ras-MAPK pathway, funded by a Wellcome Trust clinical research training fellowship, was awarded in 2014 and focussed on CFC syndrome. The majority of her clinical commitments revolve around Ras-MAPK pathway disorders, with clinics for patients with Cardiofaciocutaneous, Noonan, and Costello syndromes and within Manchester’s multidisciplinary NHS nationally commissioned highly specialized service for patients with complex neurofibromatosis type I.