Dame Lyn Susan Chitty DBE is a British physician and Professor of Genetics and Fetal Medicine at University College London.
[2] Chitty's interest is in prenatal genetic diagnostics and ultrasound screening of fatal skeletal abnormalities, enabling parents to find out about the health of their unborn children.
Chitty led the National Institute for Health and Care Research RAPID (Reliable, Accurate Prenatal, non-Invasive Diagnosis) programme,[5] which looked to investigate all aspects of non-invasive testing and evaluate how it could be incorporated into the National Health Service.
[7][8][9] Chitty recruited one third of the rare diseases participants to the 100,000 genome project.
At GOSH she worked with young people to understand public health and genomics.