David Greenfield was Foundation Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Physiology at the University of Nottingham between 1966 and 1981. A graduate of St Mary’s Hospital Medical School (1940), he started his physiology career as junior lecturer there – studying limb circulation, foetal haemodynamics and aviation medicine. Aged 31, he was appointed to the Dunville Chair of Physiology at Queen’s University of Belfast. His research there addressed the neural control of peripheral circulation, and many of his junior colleagues went on to prestigious academic careers. In 1963-4, he worked at San Francisco Medical Centre, developing a technique for testing cardiovascular reflex function later used by NASA. In 1966 he was appointed Dean at the newly-founded medical school at Nottingham and re-elected three times. His advice on the establishment of medical schools was sought by Universities around the globe. He was a member of the MRC, the GMC and several editorial boards and was elected an honorary member of The Physiological Society in 1987.

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