Michael Bond

Sir Michael Richard Bond (born 15 April 1936) is an English physician and medical researcher, whose specialism lies in the study of pain. He has held a number of national and international appointments in his field and was professor of psychological medicine at the University of Glasgow from 1973 to 1998.

Early life Bond was educated at Magnus Grammar School in Newark, Nottinghamshire and studied medicine at the University of Sheffield. He graduated MBChB in 1961, undertook general medical training at Sheffield Royal Infirmary from 1961 to 1962, and worked as an assistant lecturer and resident registrar at the Department of Surgery of the university from 1962 to 1964 whilst carrying out research, for which he was awarded an MD in 1964. He then lectured in the Department of Psychiatry whilst undertaking a PhD, moving to the Institute of Neurological Sciences of the University of Glasgow, based at the city's Southern General Hospital, in 1967.

Career Upon completing his PhD in 1971, Bond was promoted to lecturer in neurosurgery at Glasgow.

Appointments

Bond has held posts on university funding bodies, including the University Grants Committee and its successor, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, and the Joint Medical Advisory Committee. He was president (1999 to 2001) and interim president (2009 to 2010) of the British Pain Society, Member of the Council (1981 to 1983 and 1996 to 2008) of the International Association for the Study of Pain, and its president from 2002 to 2005. He was president of St Andrew's Ambulance from 1995 to 2000 and has been its vice-president since 2001. He was a trustee of the charitable Lloyds TSB Foundation from 1999 to 2005. He has received the following honours: Knighted for services to medicine, 1995 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCSE), 1969 Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych), 1981 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), 1992 Doctor of Science, University of Leicester, 1996 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), 1998 Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (Honorary), 1999 Doctor of the University, University of Glasgow, 2001

Publications Pain, its nature, analysis and treatment, 1979, 2nd edn 1984 Rehabilitation of the Head Injured Adult, (co-ed) 1983, 2nd edn 1989 Pain: its nature and treatment, (with K. H. Simpson) 2006

Personal life Bond is married with two children and lives in Bearsden, a suburb of Glasgow.