Georgina Hall

Wellcome Connecting Science | Various | Empowering People: Genetic Counselling in Focus

Ripple in the pond effect

Georgina Hall is a Consultant Genetic Counsellor at the Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine and chairs the Joint Committee on Genetic Counsellor Regulation.

In this film Georgina examines how a genetic diagnosis is more than simply having a test. It carries with it many emotions and further decision-making. The outcome of a diagnosis can have consequences for other family members, which a genetic counsellor will discuss and support a patient to process.

Portrait and environment

Chrystal Ding, 2019

This portrait of Georgina was captured at the Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine. Georgina specialises in eye genetics and works with a range of patients and families with conditions that affect vision and may be inherited. She works with many patients who are partially sighted or blind. To enable complex and important information to be communicated she uses tools such as a pedigree, whose features showing inheritance patterns are raised and distinct from each other so that they can be felt through touch.