New Faculty
Dr. Sue Moore
Pediatrics
Faculty of Medicine
Dr. Sue Moore is expanding her research interests in her new position as a faculty member. She is already well-known in the Memorial University community for receiving the Governor General's Gold Medal at the 2004 spring convocation for her master's thesis on Bardet Biedl Syndrome. She subsequently completed a residency in pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine.
Dr. Moore's new research projects involve the genetic epidemiology of the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses in Newfoundland and Labrador. These are a group of neurodegenerative disorders of which Batten Disease is one. Dr. Moore is also involved in an ongoing study on the genetic epidemiology of epilepsy in the province.
Dr. Moore began her studies in the UK, first earning a degree in engineering and then doing a medical degree at Edinburgh. She began a residency in pediatrics and genetics before moving with her husband to Newfoundland. With four young children, she decided to pursue a master's in clinical epidemiology before finishing her medical residency. She linked into ongoing research at Memorial on the genetic disorder Bardet Bieldl Syndrome (BBS), which affects people around the world but is more common in Newfoundland. By the time she finished her thesis seven genes had been either identified or mapped for this syndrome, enabling the BBS research group to determine which genes were causing the syndrome in the Newfoundland population.