of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases award for excellence in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases in 2014. Subsequently, in 2015 he received the Hamao Umezawa Memorial Award (HUMA) Award. His recollections of 1978 inspired Mark Pallen to write The Last Days of Smallpox: Tragedy in Birmingham, published in 2018. Selected publications (Joint author) (Joint author) (Joint author) References Further reading External links A. Geddes, publications, University of Birmingham ATV Today: 30.08.1978: Smallpox Alert in Birmingham 1934 births Living people 20th-century British medical doctors Academics of the University of Birmingham Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) People from the Black Isle Smallpox eradication Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Medical School