Aubrey Milunsky, MB.B.Ch., D.Sc.,
Dr. Aubrey Milunsky was born and educated in Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his medical specialist training in London, and became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Clinical Genetics.
After 13 years as a medical geneticist at the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, he joined the faculty at Boston University School of Medicine in 1982. He is Professor of Human Genetics, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Pathology, and Founding Director of the Center for Human Genetics. The Center for Human Genetics is a major International Referral Center for DNA diagnostics and prenatal genetic diagnosis. He is the author and/or editor of twenty-two books including: The Prevention of Genetic Disease and Mental Retardation; Genetics and the Law; and How to Have the Healthiest Baby You Can. Johns Hopkins University Press published the 5th edition of his major reference work, Genetic Disorders and the Fetus: Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment in 2004. His first book for the lay public, Know Your Genes was published in nine languages. His latest book for the lay public entitled Your Genetic Destiny: Know Your Genes, Secure Your Health, Save Your Life, was published in 2001, and is now available in six languages, including Chinese.
In 1982 he was honored by election as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of England. In addition, in 1982, his Alma Mater, the University of the Witwatersrand School of Medicine, conferred the D.Sc. degree for his work on the Prenatal Detection of Genetic Disorders. In 1985-86, he was President of the American Society of Law and Medicine. He is an elected member of the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society, and a Founding Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics. The Consumer Research Council of America has listed him repeatedly in their “Guide to America’s Top Pediatricians“.
Dr. Milunsky is the author or co-author of hundreds of scientific communications. He was the senior author of a paper awarded the Tinsley Harrison Award by the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation for the best original article published in 1990-91 in the American Journal of Medical Sciences. In 1991, he became the incumbent of the first endowed Chair in Human Genetics at Boston University School of Medicine – a Chair that will be named for him upon his retirement.
