Marcus Flather | |
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Born | Marcus Denis Flather 1957 (age 65–66) |
Academic background | |
Education | University College London (MD) University of East Anglia (MBA) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Medicine |
Sub-discipline | Cardiology |
Institutions | McMaster University Norwich Medical School |
Marcus Denis Flather FRCP (born December 1957) [1] is an American academic who is a clinical professor in medicine at Norwich Medical School. A specialist in cardiology,he is also a recognised expert in clinical trials. [2] [3]
Flather was educated at Rugby School. [4] He graduated from the UCL Medical School in 1982 and trained in general medicine and cardiology in London and Oxford. [2] He completed an MBA at the University of East Anglia in 2016.
Flather is a former director of the Clinical Trials and Evaluation Unit (CTEU) at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. [2] He has an h-index of 108 according to Google Scholar. [5]
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