Professor Karen Temple MB ChB (Hons), MD, FRCP
Professor of Medical Genetics, Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics,Co-lead of the Wessex Genome Medicine Centre
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Dr Karen Temple is Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Southampton and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
She currently leads for Southampton in the Rare Diseases National Bioresource program and co-leads the Southampton Biomedical Research Unit Data Sciences cross cutting theme. She co-led the Wessex Genome Medicine Centre, introducing genomics to clinical practice as part of the national 100,000 genomes project and is past Director of the Academic Unit of Human Development and Health in the Faculty of Medicine.
Her major research interests are in genomics, epigenomics, using data science to enhance clinical practice and clinical characterization of childhood developmental disorders. She is the clinical research lead for the Wessex Imprinting group which offers diagnostic testing and runs research programs for families with imprinting disorders throughout the UK. She has pioneered research into the genetic causes of transient neonatal diabetes (TND), work that has changed the treatment for neonates with diabetes. She is recognized for her identification of new genetic imprinting syndromes including Temple syndrome, a condition with marked short stature and late onset obesity which has overlap with Prader Willi and Russell Silver syndrome. She co-runs the European Reference Network clinic in Southampton for patients with imprinting disorders.
Professor Temple is an experienced clinical geneticist, having been a Consultant since 1990 and she plays a major-role in developing the Wessex Genetics Service. This serves a population of over 3 million people in Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire. She is past President of the Clinical Genetics Society.
Qualifications
MB ChB (with Honours), University of Birmingham (1981)
FRCP, Royal College of Physicians (1995)
MD, University of Birmingham (2004)
Appointments held
Professor of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton.
Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics, University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.