Prof John Connell

Career: registrar in gen med and endocrinology Univ Dept of Med Western Infirmary Glasgow 1980-83, clinical scientist MRC Blood Pressure Unit Western Infirmary Glasgow 1983-86, visiting research fell Howard Florey Inst for Experimental Physiology and Med Univ of Melbourne 1986-87, sr clinical scientist MRC Blood Pressure Unit Western Infirmary Glasgow 1987-95 (also hon conslt physician), hon prof of med Faculty of Med Univ of Glasgow 1993, prof of endocrinology Univ of Glasgow 1996-2009; Univ of Dundee: dean of medicine 2009-11, vice-princ and head Coll of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing 2012-; sec Assoc of Physicians of GB and Ireland 2001-; sr ed Clinical Endocrinology 2005-, author of over 200 peer-reviewed papers and over 20 book chapters in specialist endocrine and cardiovascular textbooks; R D Wright lectr High Blood Pressure Cncl of Aust 1994, Richard Underwood Meml Lecture Harvard Univ and Brigham & Women's Hosp 1999, Croonian Lecture RCP 2000, lectr Clinical Endocrinology Tst 2008; Soc Endocrinol Medal 2005; MRCP 1979, FRCPGlas 1990, FMedSci 1999, FRCPEd 2002, FRSE 2002