Career
He is a former President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and has been described as "world"s leading medical experts on the voice". He was appointed Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Edinburgh in 1988. In 1997 he was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and in 2004 was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the University of Hong Kong.
The textbook Head and Neck Surgery which he co-authored with Philip Stell in 1972 (Heinemann, ) was republished in 2012 as Stell & Maran"s Textbook of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology, Fifth Edition by John Watkinson and Ralph West Gilbert (Cyclic Redundancy Check Press, ).
