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Kit Vaughan
Christopher L. 'Kit' Vaughan, DSc, (born 21 April 1953), is Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town in South Africa.
==Scientist==
Kit Vaughan is considered a world authority on the biomechanics of human locomotion for which he was recognised with the award of a Doctor of Science in Medicine degree in 2009.〔http://www.uct.ac.za/mondaypaper?id=7877〕 He served as President of the International Society of Biomechanics from 1999 to 2001.〔http://isbweb.org/o/content/view/154/143/〕〔http://www.uct.ac.za/mondaypaper/archives/?id=6018〕
Vaughan was the founding director in 2000 of the Medical Imaging Research Unit at the University of Cape Town.〔http://www.miru.uct.ac.za/〕 He is the author of the award-winning book, ''Imagining the Elephant'',〔http://www.uct.ac.za/mondaypaper/?id=7984〕〔http://www.icpress.co.uk/popsci/p539.html〕 a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1979〔http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1979/〕 for his contributions to the development of computer assisted tomography.
In 2006 Vaughan was elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field,〔http://www.ifmbe.org/structure/IAMBE/IAMBE.htm〕 and in 2009 he was awarded an A rating by the National Research Foundation of South Africa as a leading international scholar.〔http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-09-09-on-the-cutting-edge-of-knowledge〕 In 2010 he took early retirement from the University of Cape Town to serve as chief executive officer of CapeRay Medical (Pty) Ltd, a spin out company that is developing innovative systems to detect breast cancer.
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