David Paterson (physiologist)
David James Paterson MAE Hon FRSNZ is a New Zealand-born British physiologist and academic. He is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford at the University of Oxford. He is also the Head of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at Oxford, and immediate Past President of The Physiological Society of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Paterson is best known for his work in cardiac neurobiology, linking the nervous system to heart rhythm, which was featured in the 2012 BBC Four documentary Heart v Mind: What Makes Us Human?, and associated interviews on RNZ National Science programme Heart v Mind. In 2018 he co-authored with Neil Herring the text book Levick's Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology, 6th edition.
David J. Paterson MAE Hon FRSNZ | |
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| Born | 21 April 1959 |
| Awards | Rolleston Memorial Prize (1989) GL Brown Prize Lecture (2000) Carl Ludwig Distinguished Lecturer (2018) |
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| Alma mater | University of Otago University of Western Australia University of Oxford |
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| Sub-discipline | Cardiac neurobiology |
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