Professor A.C. Roberts 
OBE.TD. DL. MPhil. PhD. DSc. DTech. LLD. FIBiol. FCGI. FLS

Professor Alan Roberts is a Consultant Clinical Scientist in the Centre for Clinical Prosthetics at St Luke’s Hospital and Director of Research and Development at Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust. He was Pro-Chancellor of the University of Leeds from 1986 to 2000.

In October 2007 Professor Roberts became Vice President of the Royal Society of Medicine, He is also Deputy Lord Lieutenant for West Yorkshire and a Justice of the Peace. From 1980 to 1984 he served as an Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty The Queen. He is currently Chairman of the Bradford Research Ethics Committee and Professor of Biomaterials in Surgery at the University of Hull. ‘The Roberts Clinic for Prosthetic Reconstruction’ is named after him at St Luke’s Hospital, Bradford.

He was awarded the Prince Philip Medal in 1970 for outstanding research achievement in the field of Implantation Materials in the Human Body, awarded the MBE in 1982 for services to medical science and appointed OBE in 2002. Following research at Manchester University into colour Simulation of Human Skin by Polymers, he was awarded the Research Degree of Master of Philosophy in Materials Science in Surgery. He received his PhD Doctorate from the University of Bradford in Biomedical Sciences with particular reference to
research into adhesives in reconstructive surgery and wound healing. The result of this research received a drug licence in 1993 (INDERMIL) and is now used worldwide in the field of surgery. His research produced a further licence in 2006, granted for a prosthetic adhesive and skin cleansing system (ZEFLOSIL).

He is a regular contributor to medical and dental literature, and has published textbooks and scientific papers in his discipline. His research and development in medical science has been featured in BBC’s Tomorrow’s World and QED.