Emeritus Assistant Professor Mary DYSON PhD (Lond.)

Speaker at 6th. Int.Laser Therapy Conference.

http://www.marydyson.com/

"Mary Dyson is Emeritus Assistant Professor ("Reader")  in the Biology of Tissue Repair at King's College (KCL), University of London, UK. She is a biomedical consultant, founder of the biomedical consultancy firm Dyderm, co-founder and director of Quality Medical Instruments Ltd, and Executive Vice-President of Longport, Inc.
Mary joined the Department of Anatomy, Guy's Hospital Medical School, now part of King's College London (KCL), as a Research Associate in 1964, and taught Gross Anatomy and Histology there from 1970 until her retirement in 1998. She founded the Tissue Repair Research Unit in 1987 and was its Director until 1998. From 2001 until 2003 she was part-time Visiting Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, School of Allied Health, Kansas University Medical Centre.
Mary is one of the inventors of a high-resolution ultrasound scanner, the patent for which was acquired by Longport Inc from the University of London. She is the author of over 100 research publications in peer-reviewed journals, is one of the editors of the 37th and 38th editions of Gray's Anatomy, and has contributed to textbooks on wound healing, physiotherapy and ultrasound.
She lectures internationally and has presented over 200 invited presentations on topics which include diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound, laser therapy, wound healing, tissue repair and regeneration, injury and repair-related aspects of sports medicine. She was President of the International Laser Therapy Association (ILTA) from 1992-1994, is a founding member of the World Association for Laser Therapy (WALT) and a life member of the North American Association for Laser Therapy (NAALT).

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Degrees:

1961 - BSc Class I Special Honours in Zoology, Specialist Subject: Embryology, Bedford College, University of London
1965 - PhD   Topic: Wound Healing, Bedford College, University of London

Additional Academic Awards:

1958 - State Scholarship, Pfeiffer Scholarship, West Riding of Yorkshire County Major Scholarship
1961 - Busk-Howell Research Scholarship, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research Postgraduate Scholarship
1988 - Elected Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine in recognition of "outstanding contributions to the field of medical ultrasound"
1989 - Elected Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy for research into the biological effects of electrotherapy
1992 - Elected President of the International Laser Therapy Association
1996 - Awarded the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (honoris causa) by the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine
1997 - Conferred with the title of Emeritus Reader in Biology of Tissue Repair by King's College London, University of London
1998 - Elected Honorary Member of the World Association of Laser Therapy"

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