George Alberti

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Sir (Kurt) George (Matthew Mayer) Alberti (born 27 September 1937) is the British Government's National Clinical Director for Emergency Access. He has been Professor and Dean of Medicine at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and President of the Royal College of Physicians.

[edit] Education

• Balliol College, Oxford (MA; DPhil 1964; BM, BCh 1965; Honorary Fellow 1999).

[edit] Career

• Research Fellow, Harvard University, 1966-69
• Research Officer, Department of Medicine, Oxford University, 1969-73
• Professor of Chemical Pathology and Human Metabolism, University of Southampton, 1973-78
• Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine, University of Southampton, 1978-85
• Professor of Medicine, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1985-2002 (Dean of Medicine, 1995-97)
• National Clinical Director for Emergency Access, since 2002

[edit] Honours

• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (president, 1997-2002)
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
• Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists
• Member, World Health Organisation Expert Advisory Panel on Diabetes, 1979-
• President, International Diabetes Federation, 2000-03 (Vice-President, 1988-94)
• Vice-Chairman, British Diabetic Association, 1996-99
• Vice President, Diabetes UK, 2000-
• Founder FMedSci 1998 (Member of Council, 1998-2002)
• Knighted, 2000