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Professor John A. Dodge

Dept of Child Health,
University of Wales Swansea,
Singleton Hospital,
Swansea SA2 8QA
Email: j.a.dodge@btinternet.com Home tel/fax(best)01291 671364

MD (Wales) FRCP(London, Edinburgh and Ireland) FRCPCH DCH
CBE 1999 "for services to children's health"
Hon Professor of Child Health, University of Wales Swansea,
Emeritus Professor of Child Health, Queen's University, Belfast
Formerly Prof of Child Health, Belfast from 1985-1997
Reader in Child Health Univ of Wales College of Medicine 1971-1985
Research Fellow in Pediatrics, Harvard University 1961-1963
Member of WHO Advisory Panel on Human Genetics since 1982
40 years' clinical experience, mostly in paediatrics.
Paediatric Vice-President of RCP London 1995-1998
President-elect of Paediatric Section, Royal Society of Medicine 2004

Member of Scientific/Medical Advisory Ctee of the International Cystic Fibrosis Association 1980-2003,(Chairman 1992-96); President, Brit Soc Paed Gastroenterol Nutrition1989-91; member/chairman of numerous ad hoc committees for WHO, Dept of Health (UK), MRC, etc.
Currently member of the Steering Committee of the European Cystic Fibrosis Network (European Union. Chairman of Medical Advisory Boards of Crohn's & Colitis in Childhood and Shwachman-Diamond Support.
Trustee of Genetic Interest Group,an umbrella organisationfor genetic charities
External examiner, many universities (UK and overseas).
Author/editor 9 books, many reports and >300 medical/scientific papers on various paediatric subjects, many about cystic fibrosis.
Referee for many journals,currently member of editorial board of Journal of Cystic Fibrosis.
Part-time Medical Director of a small American pharmaceutical company (Scandipharm,) 1997-99, (when it was taken over by another company).
Medico-legal experience in the fields listed.General Paediatrics, which I have practised and taught for more than 40 years.

I developed a special interest in paediatric gasroenterology and nutrition in the 1960s.

This further led to clinical management of cystic fibrosis,and to clinical and laboratory research, and involvement with this disease at local, national and international levels. I started Cystic Fibrosis clinics in Belfast in 1965 and in Cardiff in 1971, and still make a small contribution to the CF clinic in Swansea. I continue to write reports and reviews, and to manage research projects.