Top physician in York to assess impact of medical changes
Posted on 26 October 2005
Professor Parveen Kumar CBE, will discuss the implications of the huge changes in medicine over the last few decades in the lecture at Central Hall, University of York, at 5pm on 2 November 2005, which is open to the public as well as the Medical School.
A consultant physician and gastroenterologist at St Bartholomew's, the Royal London and Homerton hospitals, she is co-editor of Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine, now a standard textbook for medical students and doctors across the world.
Professor Kumar, who has worked for the NHS for over 30 years, is Professor of Clinical Medical Education at St Bartholomew's and the London, Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London.
"I'm looking forward enormously to visiting HYMS to talk about the profound changes that have taken place in medicine over the last 30 or 40 years," she said.
Professor Kumar, whose principal research interest is in small bowel disorders - mainly Coeliac disease - is a prolific editor of books and website material on clinical education. With Dr Mike Clark, she is editor of the second edition of Acute General Medicine, which is due out in December 2005.
She was a non-executive director of what is now the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) during its formative years, resigning in March 2002 to take up the Chair of the Medicines Commission UK.
She was the Director of Continuing Professional Development at the Royal College of Physicians for four years between 1998 and 2002 and was Academic Vice-President between 1998 and 2002 and Senior Censor at the Royal College between 2003 and 2005. She has also been a Non-Executive Director on the board of Barts and the London NHS Trust.
In January 2001, Professor Kumar was awarded a CBE for her services to medicine. She is President (Elect) of the British Medical Association.
Places for the HYMS Annual Lecture Life is not a rehearsal can be booked from Kelly Roberts on 01904 321750 or kelly.roberts@hyms.ac.uk
Notes to editors:
- HYMS was established by the Universities of Hull and York, in partnership with the NHS. Set up in answer to a national need for more doctors, HYMS welcomed its first students in September 2003.
- Students at HYMS are based at one of the two universities, and have clinical attachments in primary care and hospitals in North Yorkshire, the East Riding and Northern Lincolnshire.
- Photographs of Professor Parveen Kumar are available from David Garner on 01904 432153.