Curriculum Vitae

Honours:

  • Hebb Award 2003 ( Canqadian Psychological Association)
  • Queen Elizabeth II Medal, 2002
  • Member of the Order of Canada,2001
  • Proctor Medal (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Washington, D.C.), 2001 .
  • NSERC Award of Excellence , 2000
  • Foreign Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science (Section on Medicine), 1999.
  • Spinoza Chair for 1999, Faculty of Medicine, University of Amsterdam.
  • Sir John William Dawson Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, 1997.
  • Charles F. Prentice Medal, American Academy of Optometry, 1990 .
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1989
  • Distinguished Research Professor, York University, 1991
  • I.W. Killam Fellow, 1991-92
  • I.W. Killam Research Professor, 1978-83
  • Medical Research Council of Canada Lecture, 1990
  • Max Forman Prize for Medical Research, Dalhousie University, 1983.
  • Fellow of the Optical Society of America, 1987.
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, 1991.
  • Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association 1998.
  • Ran 100yds. Against Canada, 1955
  • Played cricket vs. Sri Lanka & Uganda, 1961

Education:

  • Imperial College, London University, 1954-58
  • King's College, London University, 1958-59

Degrees:

  • D.Sc. ( London University, 1974)
  • Ph.D. (Physics, Imperial College, London University, 1964)
  • M.Sc., D.I.C. (Physics, Technical Optics, Imperial College, London University, 1958)
  • B.Sc., A.R.C.S. ( Physics, Imperial College, London University, 1957)
  • P.G.C.E. (Education, King's College, London University, 1959)

Employment:

  • NSERC/CAE Industrial Research Professor of Vision and Aviation, 1993-2003
  • Professor of Psychology and Biology, York University, 1987 - 2003
  • Co-Director, Human Performance in Space Laboratory, Inter-University (York, Toronto, Waterloo) Institute of Space and Terrestrial Science (CRESTech), 1989-2000
  • Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Toronto, 1987 - . Cross appointments: Professor Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Psychology.
  • Playfair Clinician Scientist, Playfair Neuroscience Institute 1989-2003
  • University of Toronto Neuroscience Programme 1988-
  • Staff Scientist, Toronto Western Hospital 1988-
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Medical Physics and Interuniversity Eye Institute., Amsterdam, 1985
  • State of N. Jersey Univ. Research Professor of Engineering, Rutgers University, 1985-86
  • Director, Centre for Research in Vision and Hearing, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, 1978-87
  • Professor of Psychology, Dalhousie University, 1976-80
  • Professor of Ophthalmology, Dalhousie University, 1980-87
  • Professor of Medicine, Dalhousie University, 1984-87
  • Professor of Otolaryngology, Dalhousie University, 1980-84
  • Professor of Physiology, Dalhousie University, 1980-84
  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Dalhousie University, 1978-84
  • Consultant in Medical Physics, Camp Hill Hospital, 1979-87
  • Reader, Research Department of Communication and Neuroscience, University of Keele, England, 1973-75
  • Senior Research Fellow, Research Department of Communication and Neuroscience, University of Keele, 1965-73
  • Honorary Appointment to Birmingham Regional Hospital Board, 1968-75
  • Lecturer in Physics, University of London, 1960-65

Scientific Advisory Committees:

  • NSERC Circle, 2002-present
  • Staecie Prize panel (NRC Canada) 1993-1995
  • National Eye Institute (National Institutes of Health USA.) Member of Vision A and B grants review panels.
  • National Eye Institute (National Institutes of Health USA ). Review Panel member, Multi Centre Amblyopia Assessment Panel 1988.
  • National Eye Institute (National Institutes of Health, USA) Sensory and Motor Disorders panel drafting the NEI 5-year Ophthalmology and Vision Plan for 1983-87.
  • National Research Council (USA) steering committee on visual simulation in flight training, 1979.
  • Advisory panel on visual test indications for cataract surgery, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 1990 & 1992
  • Poser Committee, convened by NIH and MS Society to re-define the diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis, 1982.
  • Faculty of Medicine Research Committee, Dalhousie University, 1980-84.
  • Research Planning Committee, Dalhousie University Medical School
  • Ethical Committee, Halifax Infirmary, 1980-84.
  • Member-at-large, Optical Society of America Committee for Vision and Physiological Optics, 1982-85

Industrial Consultancies:

  • 1970-75 Consultant and Inventor's Contract with Wilkinson-Graviner group of companies, to invent paramedical instrumentation in visual and other diseases, aviation electronics and fire warning and fire-extinguishing devices.
  • 1880-86 Consultant and inventors contract with Westinghouse Electric Corp, chiefly on visual factors in industrial safety and paramedical instrumentation

Editorial Boards of Scientific Journals:

  • Vision Research (to 2003)
  • Spatial Vision
  • Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics
  • Clinical Vision Research
  • Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology (to 1983)

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