Brian Nation

Member

Biography

Brian Nation CSci FIBMS, Hereford, BSMT Member since October 2024

Brian is a Life Member of the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS). He undertook initial multidisciplinary biomedical science training in Cheltenham, then specialised in histopathology and cytology. In 1975 he was appointed Chief Biomedical Scientist and laboratory manager in Hereford. An interest in education resulted in increasing involvement in biomedical science publishing, which included working with the National Association of Cytologists as Editor of SCAN, and with the IBMS as Editor of the British Journal of Biomedical Science (BJBS), while still a practising biomedical scientist. After leaving the NHS in 2001, Brian took on the full-time professional editorial stewardship of The Biomedical Scientist and BJBS, and Step Communications’ publication Pathology in Practice. Currently, Brian is Science Editor at Pathology in Practice, and Editorial Specialist Advisor and Chair of the History Committee at the IBMS.