Roy Pounder

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Roy Pounder was Professor of Medicine at the Royal Free & University College Medical School in London and clinical Vice President of the Royal College of Physicians of London. He is now an Emeritus Professor of Medicine, of London University. He is the Associate International Director for the Far East and Australasia of the Royal College of Physicians.

He has edited over 20 textbooks and is one of the founding co-editors of the journal Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, and Editor-in-Chief of GastroHep.com. His main research interests were in the development of drugs for the control of gastric acid secretion, and the pathogenesis and management of inflammatory bowel disease. His present interests are in the effects of night time shiftwork on junior doctors.

In the late 1990s, he courted controversy, and some believe damaged his prospects of further advancement with the Royal College, by mentoring Andrew Wakefield and the campaign against the MMR vaccine