About Us

Dr Mark Kroese - Principal Associate (Public Health)

Mark Kroese is seconded part-time to the Foundation from his post as a consultant in public health medicine at Peterborough Primary Care Trust. He works on the evaluation and regulation of genetic tests and biomarkers; and has been a public health advisor to the UK Genetic Testing Network since 2006.

Mark graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1992 and trained in general practice in the Scottish Borders. In 1999, he entered public health medicine training and spent 18 months at the Public Health Genetics Unit.  In 2004 Mark was awarded the BACP Travelling Fellowship by the Faculty of Public Health in order to obtain a greater understanding of genomic programmes in the US; under which he was a visiting scientist at the Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention, Centres for Disease Control, Atlanta and a visiting scholar at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Mark is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (Royal Colleges of Physicians, UK) and Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (UK).

Selected publications

• Wright CF and Kroese M. Evaluation of genetic tests for susceptibility to common complex diseases Human Genetics (2010) 127(2): 125-13
• Kroese M, Burton H, Whittaker J, Lakshman R, Alberg C. A framework for the prioritization of investment in the provision of genetic tests Public Health Genomics (2010) Mar 15
• Burke W, Zimmern RL, Kroese M.   Defining purpose: a key step in genetic test evaluation Genet Med. (2007) Oct;9(10):675-81
• Kroese M, Zimmern RL, Pinder SE. HER2 status in breast cancer--an example of pharmacogenetic testing. J R Soc Med. (2007) Jul;100(7):326-9
• Kroese M, Zimmern RL, Farndon P, Stewart F, Whittaker J.  How can genetic tests be evaluated for clinical use? Experience of the UK Genetic Testing Network   Eur J Hum Genet. 2007 Sep;15(9):917-21
• Zimmern RL, Kroese M.  The evaluation of genetic tests  J Public Health (Oxf). (2007) Sep;29(3):246-50
• Subramonia-Iyer S, Sanderson S, Sagoo G, Higgins J, Burton H, Zimmern R, Kroese M, Brice P, Shaw-Smith C.   Array-based comparative genomic hybridization for investigating chromosomal abnormalities in patients with learning disability: systematic review meta-analysis of diagnostic and false-positive yields Genet Med. (2007) Feb;9(2):74-9

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