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Junior Research Fellow in Medical Sciences, Centre for Personalised Medicine
Email: alison.kay@st-annes.ox.ac.uk
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RMD profile: https://www.rdm.ox.ac.uk/people/alison-kay
Twitter @AliMakesHay
JRF attached to Centre for Personalised Medicine (CPM)
Ali applies social science approaches and qualitative methodologies to research questions in personalised medicine and genetics and society. She has a particular interest in genetic counselling and is a member of the Association of Genetic Nurses and Counsellors. She is also a fellow of the RHistSoc and has researched a variety of issues relating to the family, careers, entrepreneurship.
Doctorate (DPhil), Nuffield College, University of Oxford – ESRC sponsored.
Masters, Psychology (UCLAN); Genetic and Genomic Counselling (Cardiff University).
Ali is a researcher in the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM) and is co-investigator on an NIHR Research for Patient Benefit study called iPREGCARE. Her current research investigates stakeholder experiences with personalised medicine. She also has a research interest in genetics and genomics for health, ancestry and identity, particularly for groups lacking traditional family health histories.
Kay, A. C., Wells, J., Goriely, A., & Hallowell, N. (2024). Professionals’ views on providing personalized recurrence risks for de novo mutations: Implications for genetic counseling. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 00, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgc4.1910
Kay AC, Wells J, Hallowell N et al. Providing recurrence risk counselling for parents after diagnosis of a serious genetic condition caused by an apparently de novo mutation in their child: a qualitative investigation of the PREGCARE strategy with UK clinical genetics practitioners. Journal of Medical Genetics (2023). https://doi:10.1136/jmg-2023-109183
Kay AC, Taverner NV. Adoptees’ views and experiences of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genomic testing: an exploratory interview study from the UK. Journal of Community Genetics 14, 149-162 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12687-022-00622-y