David Paterson made Honorary Fellow of RSNZ

Professor David Paterson, sub-warden and Tutor in Pre-Clinical Medicine at Merton College, has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ).

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.

The RSNZ awards Honorary Fellowships to researchers outside of New Zealand with the aim of encouraging collaboration between outstanding scientists and scholars of different nations and initiatives within the New Zealand knowledge community.

Commenting on the award, Professor Paterson said it was a "surprise and honour, and highly valued by me as an expatriate New Zealander, as not too many kiwis abroad have been awarded this Fellowship."