AUBREY MILUNSKY, MB.B.Ch.,D.Sc.,F.R.C.P.,F.A.C.M.G.,D.C.H.
AUBREY MILUNSKY, M.D.,D.Sc.,F.A.C.M.G.
Co-Director, Center for Human Genetics
Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Biology, Pathology, and Human Genetics
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 thirteen years as a medical geneticist at the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, he was appointed Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology at BU School of Medicine and Founding Director of their Center for Human Genetics in 1981, Professor of Pathology in 1985, and Professor of Human Genetics in 1991. His laboratories are a major International Referral Center for molecular diagnostics and for prenatal genetic diagnosis, and he is the author and/or editor of twenty-three books. In 2010, Wiley-Blackwell published the 6th edition of his major reference work Genetic Disorders and the Fetus: Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment, this time with his son Jeff M. Milunsky, M.D. His latest book for the lay public – Your Genes, Your Health: A Critical Family Guide that could Save Your Life, will be published by Oxford University Press early in 2011. Earlier trade books have appeared in 6 and 9 languages. 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. 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.
