David Paterson awarded 2016 Brookhart Lecture

Professor David Paterson, Tutor in Pre-Clinical Medicine at Merton, will deliver the 2016 Brookhart Lecture at Oregon Health Science University's School of Medicine.

Professor Paterson, who was born and educated in New Zealand, and is a graduate of the Universities of Otago, Western Australia and Oxford, is a leading cardiorespiratory physiologist and a world authority in cardiac-neural control. His work focuses on the relationship between cellular and molecular mechanisms in cardio-respiratory control during physiological stress. He is Associate Head of Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division (Education) and Professor in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics.

Professor Paterson says he is

"delighted to follow in the footsteps of some very distinguished scientists, and to be only the second non-American-based academic to be awarded the lecture."

The Brookhart Lecture was established under the guidance of the late Dr John Brookhart (1913-1995), the former chairman of the Physiology Department at OHSU School of Medicine. Dr Brookhart was very active in the American Physiological Society, and served as its 38th President. Through generous donations by Dr Brookhart and his family, the endowed lecture series was initiated in 1991 and has hosted numerous distinguished visitors, including the Nobel laureates Peter Agre (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003) in 2007 and Professor Bert Sakmann (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1991) in 1993.