Chairs

Professor Sally Kinsey is a new chair in paediatric haematology with honorary consultant status in the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine. She was previously a consultant paediatric haematologist at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds. Her areas of research expertise include childhood leukaemias, inherited bone marrow failure syndromes, and Down’s syndrome. Professor Kinsey is a co-ordinator of clinical trials for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in the UK and chair of the Morphology Central Review Panel of all childhood leukaemias in the UK.

Professor William Gale has been appointed as chair of aviation/aerospace engineering, and director of the Earth, Energy & Environment Institute. Professor Gale, who graduated from Leeds with a degree in metallurgy in 1986, has worked at Auburn University in the United States since 1992. He was executive director of the Center of Excellence for Airliner Cabin Environment Research, a US consortium that carries out multi-million dollar research into health, safety and homeland security aspects of air travel. Professor Gale has received several awards for excellence in research and teaching, and was made an alumni professor in 2004.