University of Worcester’s Professor of Tissue Viability, Richard White, completes 45-mile sponsored bike ride year after heart surgery

Oct 21 2009 by Tony Collins, Birmingham Post

The UK’s first and only Professor of Tissue Viability has completed a 45-mile sponsored bike ride only a year after undergoing heart surgery.

Professor Richard White, of the University of Worcester, who specialises in wound care management ranging from leg ulcers and trauma injuries to superficial burns, cycled from Tintagel to Truro in Cornwall in support of a heartcare charity.

He undertook the feat after having a quadruple coronary artery bypass graft at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth in September last year after falling ill.

Professor White raised £2,300 for HeartSWell South West, a charity which supports heart patients and their families. Part of his rehabilitation involved rigorous exercise, which he extended to his fund-raising feat.

He said: “I found inner strength from somewhere. I did a lot of training and I really enjoyed it. I was helped on the cycle ride by a group of close friends who accompanied me.”