Dr Donald F Peach

Consultant to Forensic MSc Courses
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: d.f.peach@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785751
Department of Engineering and Applied Science


Background

Dr Donald Peach qualified as a radiographer in 1975 and worked in clinical practice in England, Denmark and Sweden until 1983, when he decided to train for the Teaching Diploma of The College of Radiographers.

From 1983 until 1992, Dr Peach lectured at the Oxford School of Radiography at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital, and continued to gain clinical experience by undertaking locum work in Denmark and Sweden. During this time he also undertook part-time study, gaining a Diploma in Higher Education (Biology and Psychology) at the Oxford Brookes University, and an MSc (Diagnostic Imaging) at the University of Oxford.

Dr Peach joined Cranfield University in 1992, as a lecturer at the newly formed Centre for Radiographic and Medical Studies. Here he developed and taught modules and short courses in imaging physics and pharmaceutical studies for the undergraduate course. In 1995 he relinquished control of the undergraduate imaging physics syllabus in order to take over the anatomy syllabus at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Since then Don has developed, and continued to lecture on modules for Cranfield University’s Medical Diagnostics MSc, the Forensic Engineering and Science MSc, and played a major role in formulating the unique Medical Technology Regulatory Affairs MSc, for which he was the Course Director until 2007.

Between 1992 and 2000 he was also responsible for managing and delivering the Radiographic Imaging syllabus of The University of Oxford’s MSc in Diagnostic Imaging, and lectured on the Oxford Medical School’s Part One FRCR course.

In 2005 Dr Peach gained a PhD from Cranfield University with a thesis on the use of proton induced X-ray emission (PIXE) for the evaluation of hair arsenic as a biomarker for environmental monitoring.

Selected publications

Peach.D., Lane.D.,Sellwood.M. and Painter.J.(2006): An Assessment Of Surface Heating During Ion Beam Analysis II: Application to Biological Materials. Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B, 249. 680-683.

Peach.D., Lane.D., and Sellwood.M. (2006): An Assessment Of Surface Heating During Ion Beam Analysis I: Experimental Method’, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B, 249. 677-679.

Peach.D. and Lane.D. (2000): PIXE: A Technique for Observations on Trace Element Concentrations in Human Tissue. Invited paper – The First International Congress of the Romanian Society for Cell Biology. Iasi, 7-10 June 2000.

Peach.D. and Lane.D. (1998): A preliminary Study of Geographic Influence on Arsenic Concentrations in Human Hair. Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 20. 231-237.

Lane.D and Peach.D. (1997): Some Observations on the Trace Element Concentrations in Human Dental Enamel. Journal of Biological Trace Element Research. 60. 1-11.