Prof David Kerr, CBE

Career: RNVR Surgn Lt 1953-55, RNR Surgn Lt Cdr 1963; prof of med Univ of Newcastle upon Tyne 1968-83, dean Royal Postgrad Med Sch 1984-91, prof of renal med Univ of London 1986-93 (prof emeritus 1993-); postgraduate med advsr NW Thames RHA 1991-97, med awards admin Cwlth Scholarships Cmmn 1993-97; Br Heart Fndn: memb Cncl 1991-97, chm Fellowships Ctee 1992-97; RCP: Goulstonian lectr 1968, Lumleian lectr 1983, censor 1982-84, sr censor 1990-91, ed 1994-98, Watson Smith lectr 1997; non-exec dir Ealing Hosp NHS Tst 1991-95; vice-pres Kidney Research UK (formerly Nat Kidney Research Fund) 2003- (tstee 1999-, chm 2000-02); formerly: pres Renal Assoc UK, conf pres Euro Renal Assoc, memb Cncl Int Soc of Nephrology; memb MRC Systems Bd; Hon DSc Univ of Khartoum 2005; FRCP 1968 (MRCP 1955), FRCPE 1967 (MRCPE 1955), FCMSA 1992

Books and Publications: Short Textbook of Renal Disease (1968), Oxford Textbook of Clinical Nephrology (edns, 1992 and 1997), sections in med textbooks