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For the American automobile designer, see Tom Meade.

Thomas Wilson Meade CBE FRS FRCP (21 January 1936 – 24 October 2022) was a British epidemiologist. He was a pioneer in epidemiology—in particular, in the role blood clotting factors have in cardiovascular disease.[2]

Meade underwent medical training at Christ Church, Oxford, and afterwards at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1960.[3]

In 1970, after a period studying at the Schieffelin Leprosy Research Sanatorium in South India,[4] he became Director of the Medical Research Council's Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit.[5] He retired from there in 2001, and became Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, investigating cardiovascular disease.[3]

Meade held Honorary Consultant positions in Epidemiology at St Bartholomew's, and at Northwick Park Hospital.[5]

Meade was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1994 Birthday Honours "For services to Medicine and to Science",[6] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996[3][7] and received the Balzan Prize for epidemiology in 1997.[1]

Tom Meade was a Quaker, attending Hampstead Friends Meeting. He had a son and two daughters, and eight grandchildren.[8] Meade's son, Sir Richard Meade, was appointed a High Court judge in 2020.[9] One of his daughters runs the Railway Land Wildlife Trust in Lewes, Sussex, the other is a NHS medical doctor in London.

Meade died on 24 October 2022, at the age of 86.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Thomas Wilson Meade - 1997 Balzan Prize for Epidemiology". Balzan Prize. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Tom Meade". Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  3. ^ a b c "Tom Meade". Royal Society. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  4. ^ "Tom Meade". London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  5. ^ a b 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. OL 16407718M. Wikidata Q29581659.
  6. ^ "No. 53696". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 June 1994. p. 10.
  7. ^ Haines, Sir Andy (2024). "Thomas Wilson Meade. 21 January 1936 — 24 October 2022". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 76.
  8. ^ Warren, Penny (22 November 2022). "Tom Meade obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  9. ^ "Meade, Hon. Sir Richard (David), (born 14 Nov. 1966)". Who's Who (UK). 1 December 2021. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u246620. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
  10. ^ Warren, Penny (22 November 2022). "Tom Meade obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 November 2022.


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