Founding Dean of Medical School awarded OBE
Posted on 2 January 2007
Professor Gillespie, who retired last month, worked for HYMS - a partnership between the Universities of Hull and York and the NHS - from March 2002.
He was previously Dean of the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago, New Zealand, for four years. He had a career in orthopaedic surgery in Britain, New Zealand and Australia and taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Otago (New Zealand) and Newcastle (in New South Wales, Australia).
I do appreciate the honour...I see it as a recognition of the successful start which the Hull York Medical School has made
Professor Bill Gillespie
Professor Gillespie was also a key member in the Cochrane research collaboration, an international group with a worldwide reputation for health research and was Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Injuries Collaborative Review Group.
Professor Gillespie said: "I do appreciate the honour, and while recognising that this award has been made to me as an individual, I see it as a recognition of the successful start which the Hull York Medical School has made, which has involved the hard work of a great many people."
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull, Professor David Drewry, and his counterpart at York, Professor Brian Cantor, paid tribute to Professor Gillespie's "flair, imagination and untiring attention to detail."