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List Of Doctors Working In The British Media ...
This is a list of people trained as medical doctors who have worked in British media: * Simon Brodkin * David Bull Ellie Cannon* Graham Chapman * Anthony Clare * Tony Gardner * Ben Goldacre * Fiona Godlee * Mark Hamilton * Phil Hammond * Ernest Abraham Hart * Harry Hill * Richard Horton * Sarah Jarvis * Christian Jessen * Hilary Jones * James Le Fanu * Rosemary Leonard * Alan Maryon-Davis * Pixie McKenna * Jonathan Miller * Radha Modgil * Michael J. Mosley * Michael O'Donnell * Raj Persaud * Mark Porter * George Rae * Alice Roberts * Paul Sinha * Richard Smith * Chris Steele * Miriam Stoppard * Hank Wangford * Robert Winston {{DEFAULTSORT:Doctors working in the British media Lists of physicians Media Media may refer to: Communication * Media (communication), tools used to deliver information or data ** Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising ** Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical Doctor
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy, treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Physicians may focus their practice on certain disease categories, types of patients, and methods of treatment—known as Specialty (medicine), specialities—or they may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families, and communities—known as general practitioner, general practice. Medical practice properly requires both a detailed knowledge of the Discipline (academia), academic disciplines, such as anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, underlying diseases and their treatment—the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Leonard
Rosemary Anne Leonard (born 22 July 1956) MBE MA MB BChir MRCGP DRCOG is a British general practitioner and journalist. Biography Leonard was born in London; she went to the girls' grammar school Dr Challoner's High School in Little Chalfont. She then went to the all-female Newnham College, Cambridge where she graduated with double first-class honours, before completing her training at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Leonard is a GP in Dulwich, South London. She has written for national newspapers and magazines, including Hello!, The Sun, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express since 1986. She has been the resident GP for BBC Breakfast News since 1998. She was a member of the Committee on Safety of Medicines and a Non-executive Director of the Health Protection Agency. Leonard has two sons. Work associated with the tobacco industry Leonard served as a Commissioner on a report funded by the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The foundation is, in turn, funded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Steele (doctor)
Chris Steele MBE is a British medical doctor, and the resident doctor on ITV's ''This Morning'' daytime magazine show, where he has appeared weekly since the show first aired in 1988. Work on nicotine addiction Steele became interested in treating his patients who smoked in the early 1970s and is now recognised as an international expert in smoking cessation and nicotine addiction. He has lectured on this subject in over 27 countries around the world, making many media appearances. Fight to have nicotine gum prescriptions paid by NHS In 1984, he was faced with a dilemma regarding the prescribing of nicotine gum (Nicorette) for smokers who wanted help in giving up their cigarettes. At that time in the UK, nicotine gum was a prescription only medicine (POM). It was in fact the only POM amongst thousands that could not be prescribed at NHS The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Smith (editor)
Richard Smith CBE FMedSci is a British medical doctor, editor, and businessman. He is director of the Ovations initiative to combat chronic disease in the developing world. The initiative is funding centres in China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Tunisia, Tanzania, South Africa, Central America, and the US Mexico border. He is also chairman of the board of directors of Patients Know Best. Previously he was chief executive of UnitedHealth Europe, a subsidiary of the UnitedHealth Group that works with public health systems in Europe. Before that he was editor of the '' BMJ'' (previously the ''British Medical Journal''), and chief executive of the BMJ Group. Smith worked for the ''BMJ'' for twenty-five years, from 1979 to 2004, the last thirteen as editor. Smith is a proponent of open access publishing. He was editor of the ''BMJ'' when the journal first moved to online publishing, and made the journal's archives freely available. He sits on the board of directors of the Public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Sinha
Supriya Kumar "Paul" Sinha (born 28 May 1970) is a British quizzer, comedian, doctor and broadcaster. He has written and performed extensively on Radio 4, and is one of the six Chasers on the ITV game show '' The Chase''. Early life Supriya Kumar Sinha was born on 28 May 1970. He was educated at Dulwich College and St George's Hospital Medical School. Sinha is a former general practitioner, qualifying in the 1990s. While at medical school he developed a taste for the stage in St George's annual revue and refined his comedy as co-editor of the medical school newsletter, popularly known as the ''Slag Mag''. Career Stand-up comedy Sinha began performing stand-up while working as a junior doctor in hospitals in London and King's Lynn. His early material drew on his sexuality and ethnicity, with heavy use of puns. In 1999, he came third in the final of the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year. After several years of combining touring with his nascent medical career, Sinha's break ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Roberts
Alice May Roberts (born 19 May 1973) is an English biological anthropologist, biologist, television presenter and author. Since 2012 she has been Professor of the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. She was President of the charity Humanists UK between January 2019 and May 2022. She is now a Vice President of the organisation. Early life and education Roberts was born in Bristol in 1973, the daughter of an aeronautical engineer and an English and arts teacher. She grew up in the Bristol suburb of Westbury-on-Trym where she attended The Red Maids' School. In December 1988, she won the BBC1 ''Blue Peter'' Young Artists competition, appearing with her picture and the presenters on the front cover of the 10 December 1988 edition of the ''Radio Times''. Roberts studied medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine (now part of Cardiff University) and graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB BCh) degree, having ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Rae (physician)
George Rae is a British doctor and one of the presenters of the television programme '' Street Doctor'', a prime time medical reality TV series on BBC One. The programme began its second series in 2008. He practises in Whitley Bay in the north-east of England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b .... He is a member of the BMA Council. ReferencesDocs on the box go up in the world ''Strathspey Herald'' (UK), March 5, 2008 *Helen RaeStrolling docs help to boost health message ''Evening Chronicle'' (UK), Aug 27 2007 External linksStreet Doctor website British television presenters Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century British medical doctors {{UK-med-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Porter (general Practitioner)
Mark Christopher Milson Porter, Member of the Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 12 November 1962 in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England) is a General practitioner, GP and medical correspondent for ''The Times''. He also presents on BBC Radio 4, Radio 4 Case Notes (radio show), ''Case Notes'' and ''Inside Health''. He joined ''The One Show'' on BBC One in 2011. Porter is in general practice in Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire and he lives in the Cotswolds with his wife and two daughters (born April 1989 and July 1990). He married Rosalind in July 1987 in Axbridge in Somerset. He is the cousin of Jeremy Clarkson Education He grew up in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, and went to the independent schools Monmouth School, Monmouth and Wycliffe College (Gloucestershire), Wycliffe College. He studied at University College, London and Imperial College School of Medicine, Westminster Hospital Medical School (now Imperial College School of Medicine) and graduated in 1986. He h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raj Persaud
Rajendra 'Raj' Persaud FRCPsych (born 13 May 1963) is an English consultant psychiatrist, broadcaster and author of books about psychiatry. He is known for raising public awareness of psychiatric and mental health issues in the general media, has published five books and received numerous awards. In October 2008, Persaud resigned from his position as consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, following a three-month suspension by the General Medical Council for dishonesty in plagiarising other sources in his book ''From the Edge of the Couch''. Early life and academic career Persaud is the son of Trinidad-born author Lakshmi Persaud and Professor Bishnodat Persaud. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and at University College London, where he read for his degrees in medicine and psychology, and wrote for the student newspaper '' Pi''. In his first year at UCL he had to re-sit the examinations in anatomy, which he attributed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael O'Donnell (physician)
Michael O'Donnell (20 October 19286 April 2019) was a British physician, journalist, author and broadcaster. He became a full-time writer after working for 12 years as a doctor. On BBC Radio Four he was the last chairman and word-setter of ''My Word!'' and wrote and presented ''Relative Values''. On BBC Television he presented the ''O’Donnell Investigates'' series and, on Yorkshire Television, the controversial Tuesday Documentary ''Is Your Brain Really Necessary?''. He worked as a newspaper and magazine columnist, published three novels, edited ''World Medicine'', wrote and presented over 100 television and radio documentaries, and helped found the charity HealthWatch. Early career He was born in Yorkshire, the son of a general practitioner, and educated at Stonyhurst College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he studied Natural Sciences. At Cambridge he joined the Footlights and appeared in ''La Vie Cambridgienne'' (1948), the first Footlights revue televised by the BBC. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael J
Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) (1885–1977), cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada * Michael Donnellan (1915–1985), Irish-born London fashion designer, often referred to simply as "Michael" * Michael (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born February 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born March 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer Rulers =Byzantine emperors= *Michael I Rangabe (d. 844), married the daughter of Emperor Nikephoros I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radha Modgil
Radha Modgil is a medical doctor and media personality. Biography Modgil studied at University of Cambridge gaining an MA and qualified as a doctor at Imperial College London. She worked for five years in hospital medicine in London and then trained for a further two years to qualify as a general practitioner. Modgil continues to practice as an NHS GP, as well as teaching and working in health promotion. Modgil is the co-host for BBC Radio 1's ''The Surgery''. She was the resident GP for ''Live with Gabby'' on Channel 5 and also for Newsround CBBC. She appeared as the medical reporter & presenter for ''The Sex Education Show'' Channel 4 (series 1–5) and ''Make My Body Younger'' BBC3 (Series 1–2). Filmography Television * City Hospital, BBC One (2004) *Make My Body Younger, BBC Three Series 1, (2008) *Make My Body Younger, BBC Three Series 2, (2009) *ITV News at Ten (2010) * The Sex Education Show, Channel 4 **Series 1 (2008) **Series 2: "The Sex Education Show vs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
