| Description Of Item | Oil on canvas, 75 x 116 cm
John Cash graduated from Edinburgh University in 1961 following his schooling at Ashville College, Harrogate. In 1969 he was awarded a World Health Organization Travelling Scholarship to the United States and shortly afterwards was appointed deputy director of the South East Scotland Regional Blood Transfusion Centre. He became the national medical and scientific director of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service in 1988, a post which he held for nine years. He was president of the British Blood Transfusion Service from 1997 to 1999.
Cash's academic approach to this speciality resulted in the award of a honorary professorship at Edinburgh University. He made important contributions in the scientific literature to problems of fibrinolytic mechanisms and he published 'Progress in Transfusion Medicine' in 1988. His authority in his speciality was recognised by his chairmanship of the government inquiry into the National Blood Authority. He became president of the College in 1994.
Artist: Keith Breeden |