Peter Beighton

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Beighton undertook clinical research in the Sahara Desert and epidemiologic studies on Easter Island, Tristan da Cunha and in Southern Africa. In 1972, Beighton was appointed Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Medicine. His research was largely on inherited disorders of the skeleton and connective tissues.

Beighton has received several awards including the gold medal of the British Orthopaedic Association, the President's Medallion of the South African Orthopaedic Association, the Smith & Nephew literary award and the silver medal of the South African Medical Research Council. In 2002, he received the Order of Mapungubwe - Bronze, for outstanding work and lifetime achievement as a scientist, and research into the inherited disorders of the skeleton[3].

Beighton has been accorded Fellowships of the University of Cape Town and the British Society of Rheumatology, and in 1999, he obtained the degree of Master of Philosophy in History by thesis at the University of Lancaster, UK. Professor Beighton retired with Emeritus status at the end of 1999, retaining his links with UCT, and collaborating with the University of the Western Cape Faculty of Dentistry. In 2011 he was still employed part-time in the UCT Faculty of Health Sciences as a Senior Scholar.

Fourteen of Professor Beighton's postgraduate students have been awarded Doctorates, and eight of these have achieved Professorial or Associate Professorial status. Professor Beighton is the author, co-author or editor of 20 monographs and editions, 34 chapters and more than 400 medical publications.