Neurological Disorders

Anne Silk

Biography

Dr.Anne Silk is a former clinician who developed an international contact lens consultancy. Since her retirement she has made a second career in neuroscience and the environment, producing a wide range of research outputs and supporting innovative scientific research. Anne's achievements have been widely honoured. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (a most unusual accolade for a non-medic), was elected President of the Association of Dispensing Opticians, sat on the General Optical Council, is a Member of the Institute of Physics and lately of the US Bioelectromagnetics Society. Among other high-profile national roles she has served as Chair of the NHS Dendron Neuro Research Steering Group at Oxford, and as a member of the Department of Health SAGE II Science Forum. Her contribution in the area of electromagnetism and its 2 ANNE SILK v1 impact on human health led to her being co-opted onto the UK's Health Protection Agency. Anne has also made history as the first woman to become Master of her City Livery Company in 1990. Today we are privileged to celebrate the career of this most remarkable scientist whose work links to increasingly important research at BU.

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