Thomas Meade
| Professor Thomas Meade CBE, FRCP FRS | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1936 (age 80–81) |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
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Professor Thomas Wilson Meade CBE, FRCP FRS (born 1936), also known as Tom, is a British epidemiologist.
Meade underwent medical training at Christ Church, Oxford, and afterwards at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1960.[1]
In 1970, after a period studying at the Schieffelin Leprosy Research Sanatorium in South India,[2] he became Director of the Medical Research Council's Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit.[3] He retired from there in 2001, and became Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, investigating cardiovascular disease.[1]
He held Honorary Consultant positions in Epidemiology at St Bartholomew's, and at Northwick Park Hospital.[3]
He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1994 Birthday Honours "For services to Medicine and to Scienece",[4] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996[1] and received the Balzan Prize for epidemiology in 1997.[5]
References
- 1 2 3 "Tom Meade". Royal Society. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- ↑ "Tom Meade". London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- 1 2 Andy Ness; Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2002), Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, ISBN 978-0-85484-081-6 http://www.histmodbiomed.org/witsem/vol13 Missing or empty
|title=(help), Wikidata Q29581659 - ↑ "No. 53696". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 June 1994. p. 10.
- ↑ "Thomas Wilson Meade - Balzan Prize Epidemiology" (in Italian). Balzan Prize. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
External links
- Thomas Meade on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website