Christopher Edwards (clinician)

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Sir Christopher Richard Watkin Edwards (born 12 February 1942) is a former Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University.

Career

Educated at Marlborough College and Christ's College, Cambridge,^[1] Edwards became senior lecturer in medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London in 1975, Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1980 and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1991.^[2] He went on to be Principal of the Imperial College School of Medicine in 1995 before becoming Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University in 2001.^[2]

After retiring from Newcastle University in 2007 he became Chairman of the Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust.^[3]

↑ Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-1414-8
↑ 2.0 2.1 "Sir Christopher Edwards". Debretts. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
↑ Edwards "Sir Christopher Edwards". Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 11 January 2014.

Academic offices
Preceded by James Wright	Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne 2001–2007	Succeeded by Chris Brink

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Name	Edwards, Christopher
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Short description	Former Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University
Date of birth	12 February 1942
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