Who is Dr Willie Reardon - the Founder of Genetics.ie?
At Genetics.ie, we offer a wide range of genetic testing services under the supervision of our founder, Dr Willie Reardon. Practising as a consultant clinical geneticist for over 25 years in some of the world’s leading hospitals, his experience and expertise are considerable.
In this article, we take a closer look at Dr Reardon and his background, to provide a clearer picture of the person providing the driving force behind our company values and services.
A Geneticist With a Prestigious CV
Dr Willie Reardon read medicine at University College Dublin and graduated with an honours degree, before embarking on specialist training in clinical genetics at Great Ormond Street Children’s hospital in 1988. There he completed his doctoral thesis and was subsequently awarded the degree of MD in 1991.
He then spent a year working at the internationally-acclaimed, Cardiff-based Centre for Inherited Neuromuscular diseases and was appointed as a Consultant to the Great Ormond Stree Clinical Genetics Unit in 1995. Just four years later, he returned to Dublin to take the post of Consultant Clinical Geneticist at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital.
Dr Reardon has also worked at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) in Crumlin, where he was Clinical Lead in Genetics and Head of Department of Clinical Genetics. Under his guidance and leadership, this laboratory - one that deals with thousands of patients each year - achieved international accreditation credentials in 2021.
Further to this, Dr Reardon has been the Consulting Clinical Geneticist at the National Maternity Hospital since 2001 and has published 2 highly-rated textbooks* with Oxford University Press and in excess of 250 peer-reviewed papers in medical journals. This is in addition to speaking at international conferences on many occasions.
*Full details of publications are available at www.willereardon.com
During his career, he has enjoyed much recognition, with his awards including:
The Donald Paterson Prize
The Guthrie Medal
The Graves Lecture & Medal
The Rs Mccrea Lecture & Medal
Dr Reardon is consulted regularly on clinical genetics matters and he has acted as a medical expert witness in over 800 cases in Britain, Ireland, Australia, USA and Hong Kong. He’s also a member of several international professional bodies, including the Clinical Genetics Society,
the British Society of Genomic Medicine and the American Society of Human Genetics.
You’re In Very Good Hands at Genetics.ie
All genetics testing services offered by Genetics.ie are carried out under the supervision of Dr Willie Reardon. As you can see, his experience and expertise spans many decades at some of the world’s most prestigious medical institutions. As such, as a patient with us, you’re in very good hands, irrespective of the service required.
If you’d like to know more about Dr Reardon or the services we provide, please take the time to visit us online at www.genetics.ie. Alternatively, to speak to a member of our team about your needs, please call us today on 01 206 4329 and we’ll be happy to help.