Professor Paul Goddard receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Paul Goddard has been presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Zenith Global Health, which made the presentation at the Global Health Awards and Summit in September.
Professor Goddard, who in his spare time raised millions of pounds for the west country’s first NHS MRI scanner, is a retired professor of radiology at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He has also been president of the radiology section of The Royal Society of Medicine, the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society and The Magnetic Resonance Radiologists Association (UK).
In the 1980s, aware that hundreds of lives could be saved each year through the installation of vital but expensive MRI equipment in Bristol hospitals, Professor Goddard, who is also a pianist and composer, formed a band to help raise the necessary funds. Featuring several local medical professionals, ‘Dr Jazz’ performed at hundreds of fund-raising events.
Retiring early in 2004, he continued to write about medicine. “I felt it important to remain truthful about healthcare and its problems,” he explained. “My analysis has not always been appreciated by the medical establishment but I have remained focused on the need for radical reform for the past 20 years.”
Two years before COVID-19, Professor Goddard publicly predicted a pandemic due to a novel coronavirus and was in the process of writing a book about it when news of a new, highly infectious virus began filtering out of China. As a follow-up to Pandemic he has now co-edited best-selling The Death of Science with Professor Angus Dalgleish.
“It is a great privilege to be able to celebrate the many accomplishments of Professor Paul Goddard in his profession, charitable work and dedication to advancement of health equity,” said founder and president of Zenith Global Health Mary Akangbe. “The Lifetime Achievement Award is testament to the huge respect he is afforded by his colleagues and the patients he has helped.”
Picture: Professor Paul Goddard.
Read this report on page 21 of the November 2024 issue of RAD Magazine.
