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Degrees/Awards

B.Sc. Hons. (Witwatersrand) 1949

M.B., B.Ch. (Witwatersrand) 1950

M.R.C.P. (Edinburgh) 1954

M.D. (Witwatersrand) 1961

F.R.C.P. (Edinburgh) 1968

F.R.C.P., Byelaw 39d (London) 1992

D.Sc (Engineering), Honoris Causa (London) 2003

Docteur, Honoris Causa (Paris) 2005

D.Sc (Engineering), Honoris Causa (Witwatersrand) 2010

Royal Society Visiting Research Professor, Weizmann Institute, Israel 1978

Tokyo Women's Medical College (First Awardee Invited Professorship) 1981

American Institute of Medical & Biological Engineering (Initial Awardee Foreign Fellowship) 1994

International. Academy of Medical & Biological Engineering (Founding Fellow) 2000

Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (Honorary Fellowship) 2002

International Society of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science (Arthur Guyton Award) 2003

Caro Research Studentship, created by Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London 2007

Colin Caro award for Most Distinguished Student in Bioengineering, created by University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2007

Winner, The Engineer Outstanding Achievement Award, The Engineer Technology and Innovation Awards 2007

By invitation – The Annual Harveian Lecture at the Harveian Society of London Lecture. Title: ‘The Circulation within the Circulation: Something Harvey may not have known’ 2011

Present Appointments

Emeritus Professor of Physiological Mechanics and Senior Research Investigator, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London 2007-
Emeritus Professor of Physiological Mechanics and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College 1991-2007
Founder and Research Director, Imperial College London Spin-Out Company, HeliSwirl Technologies Limited 2005-
Founder and Research Director, Imperial College London Spin-Out Company, Veryan Medical Limited 2004-

Previous Appointments

Chairman, Cardiovascular Technology Network, Imperial College Institute of Biomedical Engineering 2005-06

Chairman, Mechanics & Modelling Group, Imperial College Imaging Science Centre 2003-05

Chairman, Advisory Board, Imperial College Imaging Science Centre 2003-07

Chairman, Steering Committee, Imperial College Imaging Science Centre 2001-03

Director, Centre for Biological and Medical Systems, Imperial College 1989-91

Founder and Director, Physiological Flow Studies Unit, Imperial College 1966-89

Lecturer, Dept of Medicine, St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School 1960-66

Research Associate, Dept of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania 1957-59

Instructor in Medicine, State University of New York 1954-56

House Physician posts S. Africa, Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Taplow, Hammersmith Hospital 1951-53

Learned Societies

British Atherosclerosis Society

Royal Society of Medicine (Retired Fellow)

Royal College of Physicians

The Physiological Society

Medical Research Society

American Physiological Society

British Microvascular Society

International Society of Biorheology (former Vice President)

World Congress of Biomechanics (former Chairman International Steering Committee)

American Institute for Medical and Bio logical Engineering

International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering

Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine

Euromech

Scientific Appointments

French Government (DGRST) Committee on Vascular Disease 1975 -81

Consultant, NIH/NSF-supported research programme on atherosclerosis, Columbia University, New York 1976-80

Member, Advisory Board, Japanese International Symposium ‘Role of Blood Flow in Atherogenesis' 1987

Adviser, Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare Programme ‘Hemodynamic Mechanisms in Atherogenesis' 1987