Gilbert Thompson (physician, born 1932)

Not to be confused with Gilbert Thompson (physician, born 1728).
Professor
Gilbert Thompson
MD, FRCP
Born1932 (age 91–92)
NationalityBritish
Alma materSt Thomas' Hospital Medical School
OccupationPhysician
Employers
Websitewww.imperial.ac.uk/people/g.thompson Edit this at Wikidata

Gilbert R. Thompson FRCP (born 1932) is a British physician and researcher in lipidology.

Thompson studied at St Thomas' Hospital Medical School, graduating in 1956.[1]

After National Service, he was at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School Hospital from 1963 to 1998, but including time at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Methodist Hospital, Houston and the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, as a researcher.[1]

He was Honorary Consultant Physician in charge of the lipid clinic at Hammersmith Hospital from 1993 to 1998.[1]

He served as chair of the British Hyperlipidaemia Association and of the British Atherosclerosis Society.[1]

Since formal retirement in 1998, he has been Emeritus Professor in Clinical Lipidology at Imperial College, London.[1]

He has been an associate editor of the Journal of Lipid Research, and founding editor of Current Opinion in Lipidology.[2]

He was awarded the 1981 Lucien Award,[3] "designed to honour outstanding research in the field of circulatory diseases",[4] in Montreal.[1] He is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Atherosclerosis Society,[2] and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2006). Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis and Coronary Disease in the UK, 1950-2000. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-107-3. OL 8299880M. Wikidata Q29581740.
  2. ^ a b "Emeritus Professor Gilbert Thompson". Imperial College, London. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Previous Recipients - Lucien Award". McGill University. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  4. ^ "Lucian Award". McGill University. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
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