Prof Peter Kennedy, CBE, FRSE's Biography

Prof Peter Kennedy, CBE, FRSE's Professional Career

Career

hon res asst MRC Neuroimmunology Project UCL 1978-80, sr registrar (formerly registrar) in neurology Nat Hosp London 1981-84, asst prof of neurology Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med 1985, Burton prof and head Dept of Neurology Univ of Glasgow 1987- (sr lectr in neurology and virology 1986-87), conslt neurologist Inst of Neurological Sciences Glasgow 1986-; visiting fell in med Jesus Coll Cambridge 1992, Fogarty int scholar-in-residence Nat Insts of Health USA 1993-94; memb Med Res Advsy Ctee Multiple Sclerosis Soc 1987-98, chm Med Res Advsy Ctee Scot Motor Neurone Disease Assoc 1987-97, chm Scientist Panel on Infections incl AIDS of the Euro Fedn of Neurological Societies 2000-06; sr assoc ed Jl of Neurovirology; memb Editorial Bds: Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology 1986-92, Brain 1997-2004, Jl of Neuroimmunology, Jl of the Neurological Sciences, Scottish Medical Jl, Care, Jl of Neuroparasitology; BUPA Med Fndn Doctor of the Year Res Award 1990; Fleming Lecture RCPSGlas 1990, Linacre Medal and Lecture RCP 1991, T S Srinivasan Endowment Lecture and Gold Medal 1993, J W Stephens Lecture Denver Colorado 1994, Brain Bursary Lecture King's College Hosp 1999, Livingstone Lecture RCPSGlas 2004, Int Soc for Neurovirology Distinguished Service Award 2010; pres Int Soc for Neurovirology 2004-10 (pres elect 2003-04), sec Int Soc for Neurovirology 2000-03; memb: Assoc of Br Neurologists, American Neurological Assoc, Soc for Gen Microbiology, Assoc of Clinical Profs of Med, Scottish Assoc of Neurological Sciences, Scottish Soc of Physicians, Royal Medico-Chirurgical Soc Glasgow, Assoc of Physicians of GB and I; fell Br Astronomical Assoc; FRCP 1988, FRCPG 1989, FRSE 1992, FRCPath 1997 (MRCPath 1988), FMedSci (fndr) 1998, FRAS 2004, FRSM

Prof Peter Kennedy, CBE, FRSE's Publications

Books and Publications

Infections of the Nervous System (ed with R T Johnson, 1987), Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System (ed with L E Davis, 2000), The Fatal Sleep (2007); author of numerous papers on neurology, neurovirology and sleeping sickness

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