About Rodney Harris
Lived 1932 – 2017 (aged 85). Rodney Harris was a British geneticist and physician.
Rodney Harris (1932 – 7 December 2017) was a British geneticist.
From 1982 to 1989 he advised the United Kingdom Department of Health as Consultant Adviser in Medical Genetics to the Chief Medical Officer.
He served as chair of the UK National Confidential Inquiry into Genetic Counselling (1986–1990), chair of the Royal College of Physicians of London Committee on Clinical Genetics, as chair of the European Union's concerted Action on Genetic Services in Europe, and as coordinator of the EU-backed GenEd programme.
He died on 7 December 2017 at the age of 85.
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medical geneticist
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Rodney Harris was born on 17 January 1932.
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Rodney Harris died on 7 December 2017.
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Rodney Harris was a geneticist and physician.
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