Rod Smallwood (medical engineer)

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Rod Smallwood
Born
Rodney Harris Smallwood

1945 (age 7980)
Nationality United Kingdom
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Professor Rodney Harris Smallwood FREng, HonFRCP, FIET, FInstP, FIPEM (born 1945), known as Rod, is a British medical engineer and computer scientist.

Smallwood graduated in Physics from University College London, then studied solid-state physics at Lancaster University, before working for the National Health Service in Sheffield and gaining a PhD from the University of Sheffield. [1]

He was appointed Professor of Medical Engineering and Head of the academic Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Department at the University of Sheffield in 1995, took a computer science post in 2002, and subsequently became Professor of Computational Systems Biology and the Director of Research for Engineering. [1]

He has served as president of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2006). Development of Physics Applied to Medicine in the UK, 1945-1990. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN   978-0-85484-108-0. OL   8299881M. Wikidata   Q29581744.