Prof Arup Banerjee, OBE

Career: various jr hosp appts in India and UK 1958-67, sr registrar in med Southend Gen Hosp 1967-68, lectr in med Univ of Malaya Med Sch Kuala Lumpur 1968-71, sr registrar in elderly med Portsmouth and Southampton Univ Hosps 1971-73, conslt physician in elderly med Bolton Gen Hosp (now Royal Bolton Hosp) 1973-99 (med dir Bolton Hosp Tst 1994-98), hon clinical lectr in geriatric med Univ of Manchester 1975-, pt/t dir of Elderly Services and conslt physician in the elderly Univ of S Manchester 1998-2000, pt/t clinical dir of Elderly Services Wigan and Leigh NHS Tst 1999-2003; prof of health studies Univ of Bolton 2003-; conslt to Nat Health Advsy Serv, regnl specialist advsr in geriatric med RCP 1997-2002; memb NW RHA 1987-94 (vice-chm 1992-94); pres: Br Geriatrics Soc 1996-98, Manchester Med Soc 2002-03 (pres Med Section 1997-98), Over-50s Federation Bolton; county dir Research Into Aging N-W; memb: Geriatrics Ctee RCP London, Panel of Experts for Nat Registered Homes Tbnl; author of various pubns on med topics; govr Univ of Bolton 2011; Hon DSc Univ of Bolton 2011; memb: Br Geriatrics Soc, BMA (memb Med Specialities Ctee 1986-94, memb CCSC 1986-94); FRCPGlas 1979 (MRCPGlas 1965), FRCPEd 1980 (MRCPEd 1967), FRCP 1982 (MRCP 1967), FRCPI 1997

Books and Publications: Haematological Aspects of Systematic Disease (contrib, 1976), The Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine (contrib, 1985, 1991 and 1998), A Guide to the Care of the Elderly (1995)