In office: 2020 – 2022

University of Oxford, UK

David Paterson is Professor of Physiology and Head of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics at the University of Oxford, UK, and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He graduated from the universities of Otago, Western Australia, and Oxford, gaining his D.Phil from Oxford and D.Sc from the University of Western Australia, Australia.

He is a group leader in the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence at Oxford, and is Honorary Director of the Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre in his department. As a cardiac neurobiologist, his research focuses on the neural control of the cardiovascular system in normal and diseased states.

In 2014 he was made an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand, and in 2018 was awarded the Carl Ludwig Distinguished Lectureship from the American Physiological Society.

He was recently Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Physiology, and is a Fellow Member of The Physiological Society, Royal Society of Medicine, and Royal Society of Biology. His textbook with Neil Herring, Levick’s Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology was published in April 2018.