James Scott (cardiologist)
Professor James Scott FRCP, FIBiol, FMedSci, FRS (born 1946) is a British cardiologist.
Professor James Scott | |
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| Born | 1946 (age 73–74) United Kingdom |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | London Hospital |
| Occupation | Cardiologist |
| Employer | Imperial College London |
| Known for | Cardiology |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society (1997) |
Scott undertook training at the London Hospital and in Birmingham, then in 1975 took up a position the Academic Department of Medicine at the Royal Free Hospital.[1]
From 1975 to 1980, Scott was a Medical Research Council Research Fellow and Honorary Senior Registrar at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School.[1] He followed this with stints as a European Molecular Biology Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (1980–1983) and MRC Clinical Scientist and Honorary Consultant Physician at the MRC Clinical Research Centre, Northwick Park Hospital (1983–1991).[1]
From 1992, Scott was Honorary Consultant Physician at the Hammersmith Hospital; he was Professor and Chairman of Medicine at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (1992–1998); and from 1998 Director of the Genetics and Genomics Institute, Imperial College, and Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.[1]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1997.[2]
References
- 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, Wikidata Q29581740
- "James Scott". Royal Society. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
