Sir Andrew Goddard | |
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President of the Royal College of Physicians of London | |
In office September 2018 –September 2022 | |
Preceded by | Dame Jane Dacre |
Succeeded by | Sarah Clarke |
Personal details | |
Born | Plymouth,Devon,England | 8 November 1967
Alma mater | St John's College,Cambridge |
Sir Andrew Francis Goddard FRCP (born 8 November 1967) is a British physician and academic. He is a gastroenterology consultant and was the president of the Royal College of Physicians of London between 2018 and 2022.
Goddard was born on 8 November 1967 in Plymouth,Devon,England. He was educated at the City of London Freemen's School,an independent school in Ashtead,Surrey. He studied medicine at St John's College,Cambridge,graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1988,a Bachelor of Surgery (BChir) degree in 1990 and a Bachelor of Medicine (MB) degree in 1991. He was awarded a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree by the University of Cambridge in 1997. [1] His MD involved research into the treatment of Helicobacter pylori , [2] and his thesis was titled "Factors influencing antibiotic transfer across the gastric mucosa". [3]
He trained in Cambridge,Norwich,Bury St. Edmunds and later Nottingham. [4] [5] He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1993 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 2005. [1] He has been a gastroenterology consultant at the Royal Derby Hospital since 2002. [6] His clinical interests are inflammatory bowel disease and bowel cancer screening (he is clinical lead for Derbyshire's programme of the latter),while he is also involved in research into iron deficiency anaemia,bowel cancer screening,and Barrett's oesophagus. [2]
He was the Registrar of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) from 2014 to 2018 and was the head of the RCP's Medical Workforce Unit between 2009 and 2014. In 2018 he was elected to succeed Jane Dacre as college president;his presidency commenced on 26 September 2018. [7] He was knighted in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to health and social care. [8] He ended his term in September 2022 and was succeeded by cardiologist Sarah Clarke:geriatrician David Oliver had won the April election to succeed Goddard but chose to withdraw from the presidency in July for personal reasons. [9] [10]
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