Prof. Robert Henry Anderson

Dr. Robert H Anderson is a retired Clinical Cardiac Anatomist but remains involved in research and teaching. He is currently a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, and an Emeritus Professor at University College London. He earned his degree in Medicine from the University of Manchester in 1966. He has been awarded the Honorary Fellow of the European Congenital Heart Surgeon’s Association in 2017 and the Honorary Membership of the Congenital Heart Surgeon’s Society of North America in 2019. He is an expert in the structure of both the normal and the congenitally malformed heart. He has held several academic positions, including Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester, Visiting Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of Pittsburgh, Adjunct Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and the Joseph Levy Professor at UCL and National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College, London. Over the course of his career, he has published over 1,000 peer-reviewed papers, edited or co-edited more than 40 books, and written more than 260 book chapters. He has also delivered many keynote lectures including the Edgar Mannheimer Memorial Lecture of The European Association of Paediatric Cardiologists, the Waterston Lecture at Cardiology in The Young, and a Landmark Lecture at The World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.