Prof. Reginald S.A. Lord

Award of Excellence in Public Education and Research in Venous Thromboembolism

Professor Reginald Lord has been at St Vincent’s Hospital for most of his professional career becoming Professor of Surgery and chairman of the Surgical Professorial Unit, UNSW, from 1985 to 2003. He is now Foundation Professor of Surgery at the University of Western Sydney, after pervious academic posts at the Universities of Sydney, New South Wales, London (UK) and California (San Francisco).

He has led surgical teams and operated in Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Fiji, India and Singapore. Awards include the Edward Lumley Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (1965), the Maccabaean Medal (London, 1967), the Ethel Talbot Prize (University of Sydney 1968), the Kinmonth Medal (Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2003) and the 2005 Research Award of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He is the author of more than 250 publications in the scientific literature including a book on Occlusive Cerebrovascular Disease.

Professor Lord has been chairman and president of both major Australasian vascular societies and Vice President of the International Society of Cardiovascular Surgery. He is an honorary fellow of the Society of Vascular Surgery (USA).