Richard Downing, Esq

Career: lectr in anatomy Univ of Birmingham 1976-77, res assoc Washington Univ St Louis MO 1977-78; surgical registrar: Birmingham AHA 1979-80, Worcester Royal Infirmary 1980-83; sr lectr and hon conslt in surgery Univ of Birmingham 1986-90 (lectr 1983-86), conslt vascular surgn and dir Islet Res Lab Worcestershire Royal Hosp 1990-; author of pubns on vascular surgery and pancreatic islet transplantation, memb Editorial Bd Br Jl of Diabetes and Vascular Disease; examiner Faculty of Dental Surgery RCS, advsr in surgery Int Hosps Gp 1987-90; memb: BMA, Diabetes UK (also memb Islet Transplant Consortium), Br Transplantation Soc, European Soc Vascular Surgery, Pancreatic Soc GB and Ireland, Vascular Soc GB and Ireland; FRCS 1980