Professor Mark Tooley is Head of the Department of Medical Physics &
Bioengineering and Director of Research
and Development at the Royal United Hospitals, Bath. He is a registered Consultant
Clinical Scientist. He is a visiting professor at the University of Bath, and
the University of the West of England. He retires from the NHS in the summer of
2017.
Mark completed his BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University
of Bath in 1979. He was sponsored by Westinghouse Brake and Signal company for
the four years of the course. He then did an MSc and PhD in Medical Physics at
the University of London. His MSc thesis was developing a EEG frequency
analyser for anaesthesia. For his PhD research, Mark
invented (with a cardiologist) an original method for rate-independent
diagnosis of cardiac rhythm for implantable devices, which was patented. He spent the rest of his career in Medical
Physics and Bioengineering departments, both in hospitals and academia, working
along medical colleagues. He has worked at St Bartholomew’s hospital in London,
Bristol University, United Bristol healthcare NHS Trust, and the Royal United
Hospital, Bath. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), the
Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET, formally IEE), the Institute of
Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM), and the Institute of Physics (until 2016). He is a Chartered Engineer and
Chartered Scientist. Mark is on the peer-review college of EPSRC, has recently
a member of the EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Strategic Advisory Team. He was
recently on the Royal Society fellowship panel. He is a Fellow of the
Royal Academy of Engineering.
Mark has been a long standing member of the Panel for Biomedical
Engineering at the Royal Academy of Engineering, is a member of one of their membership
panels, a member of the Policy Committee, and on the working group for System
Thinking in Healthcare. He has mentored
on the enterprise scheme.
Mark’s research interests include:
innovations in medicine, physics applications in anaesthesia, simulation
in medicine, physiological measurement, biological signal processing, measuring
the depth of anaesthesia, blood pressure measurement and novel patient
monitoring solutions.