Seaton, Anthony

Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Aberdeen University

This year ISRP is delighted to welcome a distinguished scientist from our host country to open the conference. Professor Seaton will discuss the threats to health from inhaled particles, inorganic and biological, and how the lung defends itself and us.

Professor Anthony Seaton CBE, MD, FRCP, FRCPE, FFOM, FMedSci is head of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at Aberdeen University. He was previously Director of the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Edinburgh. Professor Seaton graduated in medicine in 1962 from Cambridge and Liverpool Universities. He developed his interests in respiratory medicine and the links between occupational exposures and ill-health at West Virginia University, USA, and in Cardiff. His research interests include the aetiology of asthma, the neurotoxicity of paint solvents, and the biological effects of air pollution. He was chairman on the Department of Environment's expert panel on air quality standards (EPAQS) from 1991 to 2001 and is a member of the Department of Health's committee on the medical effects of air pollution. He was the president of the British Thoracic Society in 1999.

What more appropriate way could there be to begin a conference dedicated to respiratory protection?