Thomas Meade

Professor Thomas Wilson Meade CBE FRS FRCP (born 1936), also known as Tom, is a British epidemiologist.

For the American automobile designer, see Tom Meade.

Professor

Thomas Meade

CBE, FRS, FRCP
Born1936 (age 84–85)
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Alma mater

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. "Tom Meade". Royal Society. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  2. "Tom Meade". London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  3. 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. Wikidata Q29581659.
  4. "No. 53696". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 June 1994. p. 10.
  5. "Thomas Wilson Meade - Balzan Prize Epidemiology" (in Italian). Balzan Prize. Retrieved 13 June 2017.


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