Academy of Medical Sciences
The Academy of Medical Sciences is a learned society founded in 1998 focussing on the promotion of medical science.
Contents
Background
Aims and objectives
The Academy identifies its objectives as follows:
- Promoting excellence
- Influencing policy to improve health and wealth
- Nurturing the next generation of medical researchers
- Linking academia, industry and the NHS
- Seizing international opportunities
- Encouraging dialogue about the medical sciences[1]
Fellows
The Academy is comprised of a membership of some 1057 fellows as of October 2013.[2] Fellows are drawn from a variety of disciplines:
- Fellowship of the Academy is based on exceptional contributions to the medical sciences either in the form of original discovery or of sustained contributions to scholarship. Fellows are drawn from clinical academic medicine, veterinary science, dentistry, laboratory science, medical and nursing care and other professions allied to medical science.[3]
Networks
The Academy 'regularly work in partnership with Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council, Association of Medical Research Charities, the Medical Schools Council and other UK national academies'.[4]
Governance
The Academy is governed by a Council of 24 Fellows including six Honorary Officers, whose meetings are chaired by the President of the Academy.[5]
People
Staff
- Helen Munn Executive Director
Council members
Honorary Officers
- John Tooke, President
- Patrick Sissons, Vice President
- Martin Humphries, Vice President
- Moira Whyte, Registrar
- Robert Souhami, Foreign Secretary
- Sue Iversen, Treasurer
Ordinary members 2013
- David Adams
- Alasdair Breckenridge
- Alastair Buchan
- Edwin Chilvers
- Carol Dezateux
- Alan Fairlamb
- Maria Fitzgerald
- Jayne Franklyn
- John Iredale
- Fiona Karet
- Robert Lechler
- Andrew Lees
- Roger Lemon
- Jonathan Shepherd
- Simon Tavaré
- Joanna Wardlaw
- Jonathan Weber
Co-opted members 2013
- Anna Dominiczak, University of Glasgow
- Raymond Hill, British Pharmacological Society
- Shitij Kapur, King's College London
- Martin Roland, University of Cambridge Institute of Public Heath
- Victor Tybulewicz, National Institute for Medical Research
President
The current President is John Tooke.
Former presidents:
- John Bell, 2006-2011
- Keith Peters, 2002-2006
- Peter Lachmann, 1998-2002
Contact
- Website: http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk
- Email: info [AT] acmedsci.ac.uk
- Address: Academy of Medical Sciences
- 41 Portland Place
- London
- W1B 1QH
- Telephone: 020 3176 2150
Notes
- ↑ Academy of Medical Sciences, Our objectives, accessed 4 September 2013
- ↑ Academy of Medical Sciences, Directory of Fellows, accessed 4 September 2013
- ↑ Academy of Medical Sciences, Election to the Fellowship, accessed 4 September 2013
- ↑ Academy of Medical Sciences, How we work, accessed 4 September 2013
- ↑ Academy of Medical Sciences, Governance, accessed 4 September 2013
- ↑ Academy of Medical Sciences, Honorary Officers, accessed 4 September 2013
- ↑ Academy of Medical Sciences, Council members, accessed 4 September 2013
- ↑ Academy of Medical Sciences, Council members, accessed 4 September 2013
- ↑ Academy of Medical Sciences, Academy President, accessed 4 September 2013
