Dr Shirlene Badger

Shirlene Badger is Patient Advocacy lead for EMEA at Illumina, Inc. In this role, she leads the Patient Advocacy strategy and engagement across the fields of rare and undiagnosed genetic disease, reproductive health and oncology. Trained as a medical sociologist, she spent over fifteen years leading academic research initiatives at the University of Cambridge and elsewhere that sought to elevate the impact of patient voice in the development and implementation of novel and experimental medical technologies.

Shirlene’s talk
Shirlene will be joining Ceridwen Hughes, Founder of Same But Different as part of a panel discussion following the film ‘A Journey of Hope’ discussing the search for a diagnosis and the power of the diagnostic moment.