• DOCTOR of MEDICINE (MD) - University of Leeds (UK), by research thesis, 1974.
  Title: “Airsickness during Flying Training”. A research program into various aspects of motion sickness, resulting in a successful cognitive-behavioral method of managing aircrew grounded with intractable airsickness, and an in-depth investigation of cupulometry.
• DOCTOR of PHILOSOPHY (PhD) - University of Leeds (UK), by research thesis, 1992.
  Title: “Indirect Measurement of Cardiac Output in Man”. A research program to investigate, evaluate and develop an indirect respiratory method of measuring cardiac output in man.
• DOCTOR of SCIENCE (DSc) – University of Leeds (UK), by research thesis, 2005.
  Title: “Motion Effects on the Human Body”. Volume I: Published Work and Current Research. Volume II: Motion Sickness – A Motion Adaptation Syndrome.
• BACHELOR of MEDICINE and BACHELOR of SURGERY (MB ChB) - University of Leeds, (UK), 1950.
  University and School of Medicine, Leeds, 1940-1942 & 1946-1950.
  (During 1942 to 1946, volunteer WW II operational pilot in Europe, India and Burma).
• Member of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians (MFOM [RCP]).
• Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS).
• Full member of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine (MIAASM).
• Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI).
• Certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (CCBT).

Present Appointments

• PROFESSOR & DIRECTOR and HUMAN ENGINEERING HEAD NATIONAL BIODYNAMICS LABORATORY, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  1 October 1996 to present.
• PROFESSOR - RESEARCH in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, COLLEGE of ENGINEERING, University of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
• CLINICAL PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT of PSYCHOLOGY, University of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
• ADJUNCT PROFESSOR in the DEPARTMENT of CELL BIOLOGY and ANATOMY, Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
• PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW, SCHOOL of BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES, University of Leeds, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK.
• LECTURER in HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING to Graduate and Undergraduate Courses in NAVAL ARCHITECTURE and MARINE ENGINEERING at University of New Orleans.
• SCIENTIFIC REVIEWER as required: Journal of Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine, Journal of Perceptual Motor Skills, Psychological Reports

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
• GREEN ENDORSEMENT – Pilot’s Flying Log Book, December, 1945
  “F/Lt Dobie is commended for having flown under the difficult conditions peculiar to South East Asia 500 hours without an avoidable accident.
  Signed, RW Niblett, G/Capt.”
• FOX LINTON MEMORIAL AWARD
  "Awarded for contribution to safety in flight; aircrew emergency procedures and the investigation of flying accidents involving injury"
• NATO CERTIFICATE
  "In recognition and appreciation of services rendered to the Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, October 1967 to March 1972"
• ARNOLD D. TUTTLE AWARD of the AEROSPACE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, 1992
  Presented for "Original research toward the solution of a problem in aerospace medicine and published in the Journal of Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine"
• LETTER of COMMENDATION
  NAVAL BIODYNAMICS LABORATORY, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 19 June 1992
• THE THOMAS G. DOBIE SCIENCE SEMINARS
  established by the US Navy in June 1992 at the NAVAL BIODYNAMICS LABORATORY, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Memberships

• British Cardiac Society (UK).
• Royal Society of Medicine (UK)
• Yorkshire Thoracic Society (UK)
• Aerospace Medical Association (USA)
• Aerospace Medical Association, Life Sciences and Biomedical Engineering Branch (USA)
• Aerospace Human Factors Association (USA)
• Professional Member of the American Society for Engineering Education (USA)
• Founding Member of the University of New Orleans Beta Lambda Chapter of: Phi Beta Delta, Honors Society for International Scholars (USA)

Selected Recent Publications

• Dobie, T.G. (2010).
  An Approach to Motion Sickness. Opening Guest Speaker at HPAS 2010 an International Conference on Human Performance at Sea, held at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 16-18 June, 2010.
• Flanagan, M.B., May, J.G., Dobie, T.G. (2004).
  The Role of Vection, Eye Movements and Postural Instability in the Etiology of Motion Sickness. Journal of Vestibular Research, 14:335-346.
• Dobie, T.G., May, J.G., Flanagan, M.B. (2003).
  The Influence of Visual Reference on Stance and Walking on a Moving Surface. Aviat. Space Environ. Med., 74:838-845.