An Addenbrooke’s professor who won a prestigious award at the beginning of the year has today won another top accolade for his work.
Consultant clinical scientist and scientific director of Clinical Engineering, Paul White, is awarded an AHCS Honorary Fellowship by the Academy for Healthcare Science (AHCS), the single overarching body for the entire UK Healthcare Science (HCS) workforce.
The award, the highest honour conferred by the academy, recognises Professor White’s outstanding and distinguished contribution to healthcare science and the advancement of patient care and follows hot on the heels of a special recognition award for Exceptional Services to Healthcare Science at the East of England Healthcare Science Awards in January.
That turned into a day of multiple celebrations for Addenbrooke’s since Trust lead scientist and consultant clinical scientist, Dr Sue Oddy, picked up the Educational Leadership Award, while Haematopathology and Oncology Diagnostic Service principal biomedical scientist , David Bloxham, won the lifetime achievement award.
Commenting on his latest achievement Professor White, who is also visiting Professor in the Medical Technology Research Unit at Anglia Ruskin University, said:
I am deeply honoured to receive this recognition from the Academy for Healthcare Science. It reflects not only my work, but the commitment and excellence of the teams and colleagues I’ve had the privilege to work with.
Professor Paul White
Professor White oversees a team which identifies novel, unmet clinical needs and translates them into innovative medical technologies and processes to benefit patients, staff and the wider health economy. Its behind-the-scenes work regularly generates headlines later. Clinical engineering also manages the Trust’s 72,000 medical devices valued at more than £130m – ensuring safety and maximising benefits and outcomes for patients.
In 2018 Professor White was the first Health Care Scientist to join NHS England’s Clinical Entrepreneurs Programme, which provides education and mentoring to give budding entrepreneurs the business skills and industry “know how” needed to make ideas a reality. In that year he was awarded NHS England Chief Scientific Officer Excellence in Research Award.
In 2017 he was awarded The Chief Scientific Officer’s Healthcare Scientist of the Year Award for leadership, innovation and research, and he is a former Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine Spiers award winner; a Founders prize winner for contributions to medical, physics and clinical engineering; and a Royal College of Physicians award winner for work on innovative measures of heart function.