| Nationality: | United Kingdom |
| Occupation: | Medical geneticist |
Professor Dian Donnai (born 1945) is a British medical geneticist.
Donnai studied at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, then trained in paediatrics at St Mary's Hospital, Northwick Park Hospital and in Sheffield.
She obtained a senior registrar training post in medical genetics at Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester in 1978, becoming a consultant in 1980.
The University of Manchester appointed her an honorary professor of medical genetics in 1994, and gave her a substantive chair in 2001.
She served as president of the Clinical Genetics Society from 1997 to 1999; as consultant advisor to the United Kingdom's Chief Medical Officer from 1998 to 2004; and as president of the European Society of Human Genetics from 2009 2010.
Together with Margaret Barrow, she first described the genetic disorder 'Donnai–Barrow syndrome', in 1993.[1]
She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2005 New Year Honours, for services to medicine,[2] and has also been elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists "Latin: [[ad eundem]]" (FRCOG (ad eundem)), and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).[3]