Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health

Clinical Genomics Statewide Clinical Network

The Clinical Genomics SCN promotes Genomics, the study of all of a person’s genes (the genome). It has the potential to reshape clinical practice and to fundamentally change the way we prevent, diagnose, treat and monitor illness.

Page Contents

  • Related news
  • Vision and goals
  • Steering Committee
  • Current projects and collaborations
  • Related information

Related News

Improving the identification and management of Haemoglobinopathies and Thalassaemia in pregnancy

The Clin­i­cal Genomics Statewide Net­work team held a work­shop involv­ing near­ly 30 key clin­i­cal stake­hold­ers in April, with the aim of improv­ing the path­way for cou­ples at risk.

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Vision and goals

Vision

Our vision is for the South Aus­tralian genomics com­mu­ni­ty to work togeth­er to pro­vide the best pos­si­ble health care for South Australians.

Goals

  • Deliv­er high qual­i­ty care for peo­ple through a per­son-cen­tred approach to genomics
  • Work­force: build­ing a skilled work­force that is lit­er­ate in genomics
  • Finance and infra­struc­ture: ensur­ing sus­tain­able and strate­gic invest­ment in cost-effec­tive genomics
  • Ser­vices: max­imis­ing qual­i­ty, safe­ty and clin­i­cal util­i­ty of genomics in health care
  • Data: respon­si­ble col­lec­tion, stor­age, use and man­age­ment of genom­ic data
  • Inno­va­tion: estab­lish inno­v­a­tive projects that put South Aus­tralia at the fore­front of genomics

Clin­i­cal Genomics Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work Steer­ing Committee

Professor Christopher Barnett

Clin­i­cal Genomics Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work Clinical Lead

Clinical Geneticist

Prof Christo­pher Bar­nett has dual fel­low­ships in neonatal/​perinatal med­i­cine, clin­i­cal genet­ics and is the head of the Pae­di­atric and Repro­duc­tive Genet­ics Unit at the Wom­en’s and Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal in Ade­laide. He is the lead of the NHM­RC fund­ed Genom­ic Autop­sy Project and on the expert advi­so­ry com­mit­tee of the Genomics Health Futures Mis­sion. Christo­pher trained at the Wom­en’s and Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal in Ade­laide and at The Hos­pi­tal for Sick Chil­dren in Toron­to. He has research inter­ests in pre­na­tal genet­ics, fetal pathol­o­gy and rare child­hood diseases.

Steering Committee members

Prof Christo­pher Bar­nett (Chair)

Clin­i­cal Lead of the Clin­i­cal Genomics SCN; Clin­i­cal Geneti­cist; Head, Pae­di­atric and Repro­duc­tive Genet­ics Unit (WCHN)

Dr Alice Roberts-Thomson

Con­sumer advo­cate and Gener­al med­ical prac­ti­tion­er (Belair Med­ical, Ade­laide Mums and Babies Clinic)

Mrs Ali­cia Kimber

Con­sumer Rep­re­sen­ta­tive and Physiotherapist
Prof Dan­ny LiewDean of Med­i­cine, Ade­laide University

Prof David Lynn

Direc­tor, Com­pu­ta­tion­al and Sys­tems Biol­o­gy Pro­gram (SAHM­RI); Pro­fes­sor of Sys­tems Immunol­o­gy, Col­lege of Med­i­cine and Pub­lic Health (Flinders Uni­ver­si­ty); Sci­en­tif­ic Direc­tor (SA Genomics Centre)

Prof Deb­o­rah White

Co-Theme Leader Pre­ci­sion Can­cer Med­i­cine; Head of Acute Leukaemia Genomics (SAHM­RI)

Dr Denis Bauer

Group leader (CSIRO)

Ms Gay­athri Parasivam

Senior Genet­ic Coun­sel­lor, Pae­di­atric and Repro­duc­tive Genet­ics Unit (WCHN)

Prof Hamish Scott

Sci­en­tist, Head of the Depart­ment of Genet­ics and Mol­e­c­u­lar Pathol­o­gy (SA Pathology)

Ms Hay­ley Salvemini

Prin­ci­pal Genet­ic Coun­sel­lor (FHGSA), Adult Genet­ics Unit (RAH)

Prof Jamie Craig

Con­sul­tant Oph­thal­mol­o­gist (Flinders University/​SAHLN/​private prac­tice); Matthew Flinders Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor of Oph­thal­mol­o­gy; NHM­RC Senior Prac­ti­tion­er Fellow

Dr Jan Liebelt

Clin­i­cal Geneti­cist (South Aus­tralian Clin­i­cal Genet­ics Service/​Repromed)

Mr Joel Geoghegan

Bioin­for­mati­cian; Indus­try Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Team Leader Oncol­o­gy (Asia Pacif­ic Japan, Illumina)

Prof Jozef Gecz

Sci­en­tist; Head of Neu­ro­ge­net­ics (Ade­laide Med­ical School); Chair for the Pre­ven­tion of Child­hood Dis­abil­i­ty; NHM­RC Senior Prin­ci­pal Research Fel­low 2019 SA Sci­en­tist of the Year

A/​Prof Karen Lower

Sci­en­tist; Human Genet­ics Edu­ca­tion Lead and Med­ical Bio­sciences Teach­ing Pro­gram Direc­tor, Col­lege of Med­i­cine and Pub­lic Health (Flinders University)

A/​Prof Karin Kassahn

Head of Tech­nol­o­gy Advance­ment Unit, Genet­ics and Mol­e­c­u­lar Pathol­o­gy (SA Pathology)

Prof Lyle Palmer

Pro­fes­sor of Genet­ic Epi­demi­ol­o­gy (Uni­ver­si­ty of Adelaide)

Mr Mario Corena

Con­sumer representative

Dr Nico­la Poplawski

Clin­i­cal Geneti­cist and Head of Unit, Adult Genet­ics Unit (RAH)

Prof Paul Worley

Gen­er­al prac­ti­tion­er; Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Clin­i­cal Inno­va­tion (River­land Mallee Coorong LHN)

Ms Tracey Powell

Con­sumer representative

Dr Tris­tan Hardy

Statewide Clin­i­cal Sup­port Ser­vices (SCSS); Med­ical Direc­tor Genet­ics (SA Pathology/​Repromed)

Dr Vijay Suppiah

Senior Lec­tur­er in Phar­ma­cy (Ade­laide Cen­tre for Pre­ci­sion Health, UniSA)

Current projects and collaboration

Dig­i­tal Con­sent for Genet­ic Screening

We are pilot­ing an online patient jour­ney path­way incor­po­rat­ing dig­i­tal con­sent, sup­port­ed by an infor­ma­tion­al ani­mat­ed video and oth­er resources, in both the adult and pae­di­atric genet­ic ser­vices. This aims to pro­vide con­sumers and their fam­i­lies more time to con­sid­er the impli­ca­tions of genet­ic test­ing and to allow for more informed consent.

Genomics Clin­i­cal Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Criteria

Part­ner­ing with the Depart­ment for Health and Well­be­ing, we are devel­op­ing clin­i­cal deci­sion sup­port tools to improve refer­ral and assess­ment of patients requir­ing genom­ic out­pa­tient services.

Tha­las­saemia Screen­ing in Pregnancy

We are work­ing with mater­nal and pae­di­atric ser­vices and SA Pathol­o­gy to improve the report­ing and time­li­ness of tha­las­saemia screen­ing in pregnancy.

Related information

Hear from Pro­fes­sor Christo­pher Bar­nett about the Clin­i­cal Genomics Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work as part of the 2022 CEIH Con­ver­sa­tion Series

Have a question?

Or want to know more about the Clin­i­cal Genomics Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work?
Please email CEIH.​ClinicalGenomics@​sa.​gov.​au