David Paterson (physiologist)
David J. Paterson | |
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| Born | 21 April 1959 |
| Awards | Rolleston Memorial Prize (1989) GL Brown Prize Lecture (2000) Carl Ludwig Distinguished Lecturer (2018) Honorary Doctor of the University of Western Australia (HonDUniv) (2023) Honorary Doctor of Laws University of Otago (HonLLD) (2025) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Otago University of Western Australia University of Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Sub-discipline | Cardiac neurobiology |
David James Paterson MAE Hon FRSNZ (born April 21, 1959) is a New Zealand-born British physiologist and academic. He is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford at the University of Oxford. He is also the Head of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at Oxford, and immediate Past President of The Physiological Society of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Paterson is best known for his work in cardiac neurobiology, linking the nervous system to heart rhythm, which was featured in the 2012 BBC Four documentary Heart v Mind: What Makes Us Human?, and associated interviews on RNZ National Science programme Heart v Mind. In 2018 he co-authored with Neil Herring the text book Levick's Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology, 6th edition.