Professor Rodney Harris Smallwood FREng, HonFRCP, FIET, FInstP, FIPEM (born 1945), known as Rod, is a British medical engineer and

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. Smallwood graduated in Physics from

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, then studied solid-state physics at Lancaster University, before working for the

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and gaining a PhD from the

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. He was appointed Professor of Medical Engineering and Head of the academic Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Department at the

in 1995, took a computer science post in 2002, and subsequently became Professor of Computational Systems Biology and the Director of Research for Engineering. He has served as president of the

Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) is the United Kingdom's professional body and learned society for physicists, engineers and technologists within the field of medicine, founded in 1995, changing its name from the ...

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* * 1945 births Place of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Living people Alumni of the University of Sheffield {{UK-med-bio-stub