Education
Berry read Medicine and Pathology at London University (Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Science), winning the Governor of Charing Cross Hospital"s Clinical Gold Meda
Berry read Medicine and Pathology at London University (Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Science), winning the Governor of Charing Cross Hospital"s Clinical Gold Meda
He then joined the Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street becoming a British Heart Foundation Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer. He was appointed Reader in Pathology at Guy"s Hospital in 1970 and Professor and Head of Department of Pathology at the Royal London Hospital in 1976. Berry is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine and of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and has a number of honorary degrees from overseas universities.
Since 2005 he has been an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Toxicological Pathology.
Sir Colin is a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.
He was a member of the Medical Research Council of Great Britain, now an advisor and is a former President of the European Society of Pathology as well as of the British Academy of Forensic Sciences.