St Thomas' Hospital Medical School
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St Thomas' Hospital Medical School in London was one of the oldest and most prestigious medical schools in the UK. The school was absorbed to form part of King's College London.
It was part of St Thomas' Hospital which was established in 1173. According to historical records St Thomas' Hospital Medical School was founded in about 1550. It was admitted as a school of the University of London in 1900 but remained a constituent part of St Thomas' Hospital until 1948 when it formally became part of the university. In 1982 it merged with the medical school at Guy's Hospital to form the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals.
Famous alumni include
- David Owen (b. 1938) - Labour Foreign Secretary and founder of the Social Democratic Party
- Richard Doll (1912 - 2005) - Epidemiologist and physiologist; established link between smoking and cancer
- Max Theiler (1899 – 1972) - Virologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine for yellow fever.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939) - British physician, sexual psychologist and social reformer.
- Dame Cecily Saunders DBE OM (1918-2005) Nurse, physician and social worker who developed the concept of the hospice and was a pioneer of palliative care
- Fiona Wood AM (b. 1958) - plastic surgeon, Australian of the Year 2005
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