Richard Beasley (physician)

Charles Richard William Beasley is a New Zealand academic and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington.
Academic career.
After studying medicine at the University of Otago, Beasley rose to full professor at Victoria University of Wellington, with connections to Wellington Hospital and the universities of Otago and University of Southampton.
Beasley has received multiple grants from Medical Research Institute of New Zealand.
In the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours, Beasley was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to medical research, in particular asthma. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2015. In 2019, he was awarded the Health Research Council of New Zealand 's Beaven Medal.