Dr. Willie Reardon
MD FRCPI DCH FRCPCH FRCPath FRCP(Lond)
Consultant Clinical Geneticist
Genetics.ie has been founded by Dr. Willie Reardon at a time when the impact of genetics in medicine has never been greater but access to Consultant provided expert
genetic services is very restricted.
Dr. Willie Reardon as the founder of Genetics.ie, aims to offer all patients a prompt, Consultant
delivered, service which reflects the experience, expertise, commitment to high clinical standards & informed patient care he has practised throughout his distinguished career.
Excellent communication to patients and their referring doctors is his hallmark.
PRIZES & HONOURS
DONALD PATERSON PRIZE
GUTHRIE MEDAL
GRAVES LECTURE & MEDAL
RS MCCREA LECTURE & MEDAL
AFFILIATIONS
Dr. Reardon is a member of the following organisations:
British Society for Genomic Medicine
Clinical Genetics Society
American Society of Human Genetics
UK Dysmorphology Club
FELLOWSHIPS OF PROFESSIONAL COLLEGES
Royal College of Physicans of Ireland
Royal College of Physicans (London)
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Royal College of Pathology
PATRONAGES
Dr. Reardon is a patron of the following organisations:
NF Ireland – the support group for patients with Neurofibromatosis
Headlines – the CranioFacial Support Group
MEDICAL COUNCIL REGISTRATION
General Medical Council 3347076, Specialist registration in Clinical Genetics
Irish Medical Council 000828
Background & Expertise
Willie Reardon read Medicine at University College Dublin, graduating with an honours degree. Following basic training in Dublin teaching hospitals and associated centres he embarked on specialist training in clinical genetics at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in 1988. He completed his doctoral thesis while there, the degree of MD being awarded in 1991.
Thereafter he spent a year working at the internationally acclaimed centre for inherited neuromuscular diseases in Cardiff. He was appointed a Consultant to the Great Ormond Street Clinical Genetics Unit in 1995. He returned to work in Dublin in 1999, taking the post of Consultant Clinical Geneticist at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital. More recently he has worked as Visiting Professor of Paediatric Genetics at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, before returning to Dublin.
Dr. Reardon was Clinical Lead in Genetics & Head of Department of Clinical Genetics at Children's Health Ireland, Crumlin. He led a department comprising Consultants, Genetic Counsellors, Scientists and Administrative staff, seeing over 3000 patients a year and undertaking almost 10,000 laboratory investigations and analyses. Under his guidance and leadership, the Laboratory in Crumlin achieved international accreditation credentials in 2021.
Dr Reardon was the Consultant Clinical Geneticist at the National Maternity Hospital from 2001 until 2023. In that capacity he saw very many patients with genetic forms of infertility, patients during pregnancy where there was a concern for possible fetal malformation or chromosomal disorder, Patients who had experienced stillbirth, as well as newborn patients with suspected genetic conditions.
Dr Reardon has published 2 highly rated textbooks with Oxford University Press, chapters relating to Clinical Genetics practice in several leading textbooks, in excess of 250 peer reviewed papers in medical journals as well as speaking at international conferences on innumerable occasions. Full details of publications are available on www.williereardon.com
Dr Reardon is regularly consulted on issues relating to practices in clinical genetics, both as an expert opinion and in an advisory capacity. He is a member of several international professional bodies, including the British Society of Genomic Medicine, the Clinical Genetics Society, the American Society of Human Genetics and has served on the Editorial Board of several international journals in his field.
Dr Reardon has acted as a medical expert witness in over 800 cases in Britian, Ireland, Austrialia, USA and Hong Kong.