Shirley Victoria Penrose Hodgson (born 22 February 1945) is a British geneticist.
She worked as a GP, then performed as a locum in clinical genetics at Guy's Hospital, saying she found the subject "irresistible".
[2] She became Senior Registrar in Clinical Genetics for the South Thames (East) Regional Genetics Centre and Honorary Senior Registrar at Hammersmith Hospital, London, from 1983 to 1988; then Consultant Geneticist at Addenbrooke's Hospital from 1988 to 1990.
[2] In the 1990s, she led the regional cancer genetics service at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital.
She has three older brothers, Oliver, Sir Roger, and Jonathan Penrose.