Jill Belch

Jill Janette Freda Belch OBE FRSE (born 22 October 1954) is a Scottish academic working in the field of vascular medicine.

The daughter of Alexander Ross Belch and Janetta Finnie Murdoch, she was born in Glasgow. She received a BMed in 1976 and then an MD from the University of Glasgow in 1987, winning the Belahouston Gold Medal. From 1982 to 1987, she was a lecturer for the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council. She was a lecturer at the University of Dundee from 1987 to 1992 and a reader from 1992 to 1995, becoming a professor of vascular medicine in 1995. She held honorary consultant status at the University Department of Medicine of Ninewells Hospital.[1]

She has been director of the Tayside Clinical Trials Centre and of the Tayside Medical Science Centre.[1]

Her primary area of interest in research is inflammatory elements of vascular disease.[2]

Belch was a founder fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2016, she was named an Officer in the Order of the British Empire for her work in medicine.[2]

She is the mother of actress Joanna Vanderham.