Dunning 's Ian Philip receives the MBE and Prof John Forsythe has an OBE in the list of honours made by The Queen at the start of 2022.
Ian is in good company, with Perthshire Special Olympics stalwart Laura Baxter also given the MBE medal.
Also getting an OBE with Prof Forsythe is Saints owner, Geoff Brown.
In Perth, Prof John Forsythe, medical director of organ donation and transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant, receives an OBE.
Prof Forsythe who hails from Perth, was honoured in particular “For services to transplant surgery and COVID-19.”
His career in the organ transplant field has been long.
He was consultant transplant surgeon with the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for almost 24 years, beginning in 1995 and with them right up until March 2019. Before this he held a similar post in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
He became lead clinician for Organ Donation and Transplantation Scotland from 2008-2016.
His other distinctions have been to be chair of the Scottish Donation and Transplant Group and chair of the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs Advisory Committee to all four UK health ministers.
In April 2016, John was promoted to medical director of organ donation and transplantation for NHSBT at NHS Edinburgh.
Professor Forsythe is a prolific speaker and his clinical interests are listed by the University of Edinburgh as renal/liver/pancreas transplants and the surgery of renal disease.
In terms of research, he has looked at immune monitoring following organ transplantation.
Dunning can lay claim to retired farmer Ian (81), who spent six years as chair of Dunning Community Trust (DCT), having previously been its founder director.
With the trust, Ian was key to getting a pathway installed at Kincladie Wood which has opened up the green space for others to enjoy.
Such was the success of the Kincladie Wood access that the project in Dunning attracted a Scotland’s Finest Woods commendation award for Ian and others involved in 2016, a decade after the trees came into community ownership.
Volunteers and members of the Dunning Community Trust manage the wood on behalf of the village and for its locals to enjoy.
On reaching the end of his term as chairman of DCT in 2011, Ian was presented with a wooden bowl made from a local beech tree to commemorate his contributions to the Dunning community.
Ian has also been recognised for his efforts to build a community pavilion at Dunning’s Rollo Park in 2010..
