Postgraduate Prizes/Awards National and Regional:
1978: Kincardine Prize of the North East Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners (for contributions to the management of hypertension)
1991: John Perry Prize of the British Computer Society (for the application of computers to cardiovascular prevention)
1992: Ian Stokoe Memorial Award of the Royal College of General Practitioners UK (for increasing understanding of cardiovascular prevention in primary care)
1995: Blackwell Prize of the University of Aberdeen (for the book/monograph: Computers in Primary Care - Heinemann Medical 1984, 1986 (for contributions to scholarship and computing in medicine)
2003-04: President of the Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society
2004-07: Provost of the North East Scotland Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners

International Awards
2007: Eric Elder Medal, Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP)