Post-registration junior hospital doctor training at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham; Specialist training in Gastroenterology and subsequently Clinical Genetics at Hammersmith Hospital, London; West Midlands Regional Genetics Service, Birmingham; East Anglian Regional Genetics Service, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. Wellcome Trust Clinical Training Fellow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge (1995-1999). Honorary Consultant and University Lecturer, Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge (2004-2006) subsequently (2006-2010) Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Appointed to current post in Exeter September 2010.

Molecular genetic aetiologies of developmental malformations in children, especially those of the gastro-intestinal tract. This work is typified by Dr Shaw-Smith‘s work, with collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA on the role of the transcription factor gene FOXF1 in the aetiology of GI tract malformations in humans (Stankiewicz et al, 2009).

He has a long-standing interest in the application of array-based technologies to the elucidation of genetic mechanism in children with mental retardation/learning disabilityand congenital malformations (Shaw-Smith et al, 2004, 2006).