Thomas Meade
Professor Thomas Wilson Meade CBE FRS FRCP (born 1936), also known as Tom, is a British epidemiologist.
Professor Thomas Meade | |
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| Born | January 21, 1936[1] |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
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Meade underwent medical training at Christ Church, Oxford, and afterwards at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1960.[2]
In 1970, after a period studying at the Schieffelin Leprosy Research Sanatorium in South India,[3] he became Director of the Medical Research Council's Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit.[4] He retired from there in 2001, and became Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, investigating cardiovascular disease.[2]
He held Honorary Consultant positions in Epidemiology at St Bartholomew's, and at Northwick Park Hospital.[4]
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",[5] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996[2] and received the Balzan Prize for epidemiology in 1997.[1]
His son, Sir Richard Meade, was appointed a High Court judge in 2020.[6]
References
- "Thomas Wilson Meade - 1997 Balzan Prize for Epidemiology". Balzan Prize. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- "Tom Meade". Royal Society. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- "Tom Meade". London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- Andy Ness; Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2002). Population-based Research in South Wales: The MRC Pneumoconiosis Research Unit and the MRC Epidemiology Unit. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-081-6. OL 16407718M. Wikidata Q29581659.
- "No. 53696". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 June 1994. p. 10.
- "Meade, Hon. Sir Richard (David), (born 14 Nov. 1966)". Who's Who (UK). 1 December 2021. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u246620. Retrieved 21 April 2022.