Education:

attended Quaker schools Sibford School, Nr. Banbury, Oxon (1949-1954), Bootham School, York 1954-1957, Clare College, Cambridge 1957-1960,

The London Hospital Medical College 1960-1963.

Qualifications: BA (Cantab) 1960, MB (Cantab) 1963, MRCP (London) 1966, MD (Cantab) 1971, FRCP (London) 1977

Working Experience: Internship and residence at the London Hospital, Royal United Hospital, Bath and the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital (1963-1966).

Senior Registrar (general medicine), University of the West Indies, Kingston 1966-1967, Wellcome Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, UWI., 1967-1971, Visiting Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, USA 1971, Scientific Staff, MRC Abnormal Haemoglobin Unit, Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge 1971-1972, Scientific Staff, MRC Epidemiology Unit, UWI, Kingston, Jamaica 1972-1974, Director, MRC Laboratories (Jamaica), University of the West Indies (UWI), Kingston, Jamaica 1974-1999, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medical Sciences, UWI, Chairman, Sickle Cell Trust, Jamaica.

Publications

3 books and over 430 scientific papers on sickle cell disease.

Created interactive CD-ROM tutorials on sickle cell disease in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust, London.

Produced DISCUS for clinical data collection and research, many pamphlets, posters, booklets, videos and DVD’s on sickle cell disease.

Advisory Work

Consultant to sickle cell projects in the Caribbean, Brazil, Uganda, Cameroon, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and India.

Major Work

The Jamaican Cohort Study based on the long term follow-up of 550 subjects with sickle cell disease and 250 normal controls detected during the screening of 100,000 newborns at Victoria Jubilee Hospital.

Formation and development of the Sickle Cell Trust (Jamaica) from 1986.

The Manchester Project for prevention of sickle cell disease from 2007