Professor of Medicine: encompassing a) acute general medicine, and b) specialist lung disease diagnostics and treatments. Medical Centres at Cardiff, Oxford, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Oxford, and Swansea (1972-2010)
Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford (1992-1998)
Visiting Professor: Osaka, Rome (Tor Vergata), Kyoto
MB (Wales) 1972; MSc Genetics (Edin) 1978; MD (Wales) 1981; MA (Oxon) 1992
Founding Head, Swansea School of Medicine 2001-2008
Career-long interest in bed-side teaching of clinical students.
Career-long lecturing to medical students – emphasising the link between clinical disorder, bio-pathology, and therapeutics
Chairman, St David’s Medical Foundation - the charity which specifically raises funds (currently some £750K) in support of teaching and research at School of Medicine
Founding Head, Swansea School of Medicine’s Institute of Life Science, 2006
Executive Editor, Quarterly Journal Of Medicine (Oxford University Press) 2001-2009
Original Publications: circa 120, h-index 57: genetics, immunity, and pathogens in lung diseases
Author of monograph: Pneumocystis carinii, Oxford University Press, 1991 (clinical and scientific aspects of an opportunistic pathogen of the lung)
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 2005
Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, 2011
Commander of the Order of British Empire (CBE), 2011 (Services to Medicine)
Joint Winner of the 2001 Daiwa-Adrian Prize in Medicine with Dr Taro Shirakawa: Genetic variants of Th-2 immune signalling in respiratory allergy
Professor John Evans, Head of MRC Cytogenetics Unit, Edinburgh 1978 – 1984; cytotoxicity and mutagenicity of cigarette smoke
Professor Anne Wakefield, Weatherall Institute Oxford: 1988 - 1997; bio-pathology of pneumocystis, development of definitive RNA diagnostic
Professor Bill Cookson, Imperial College London: 2012 onwards; molecular & microbial pathology of lung disorder
