Professor Jane S. Green PhD, , Hon FCCMG, FCAHS (born 1943) is a Canadian medical geneticist.
Jane S. Green is a Canadian medical geneticist who has been in the field for over 40 years. She has contributed to and published many papers, books and presentations and has been given many awards and recognitions because of it. Her research's in hereditary diseases, concentrating on hereditary cancers and eye disorders. Her extensive research has helped in identifying genetic mutations linked to hereditary cancers, ocular disorders, and syndromic conditions such as Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Her work has helped the development of clinical and genetic screening programs, which allows for the faster identification and better treatment of hereditary diseases. Dr. green travels across NL to share her work with peers, patients, and families because she believes patient and family care is what's most important above all else.
Dr.Green studied Zoology, obtaining a BSc in 1964, and Drosophila Genetics, obtaining an MSc in 1966, both from the University of British Columbia. She moved to Newfoundland in 1967.
She helped to establish an Ocular Genetics Clinic from 1978 to 1986 and, after a family was referred there with Von HippelâÂÂLindau disease, began a cancer genetics screening programme.
She became a faculty member at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1988 and obtained a PhD there in 1995; her dissertation was on the development of clinical and genetic screening programs for hereditary cancer syndromes. She was appointed Professor in the Discipline of Genetics there in 2002, and retired in April 2016.
She is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS).
Dr.Green has been credited in about 180+ works and some of her most recent ones are publicized in 2024-2025