James Scott FRCP, FIBiol, FMedSci, FRS (born 1946) is a British cardiologist.

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

  1. ^ a b c d 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. ^ "James Scott". Royal Society. Retrieved 21 June 2017.

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