David Anthony Hilton Yates, FRCP (15 August 193013 September 2004) was an English

rheumatologist Rheumatology (Greek ''ῥεῦμα'', ''rheûma'', flowing current) is a branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis and management of disorders whose common feature is inflammation in the bones, muscles, joints, and internal organs. Rheumatolog ...

and consultant, president of the British Association for Rheumatology and of the Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Section of the

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Education

Yates was educated at Gresham's School,

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, and then from 1948 to 1954 at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School at King's College London. As a student he was a

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and

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player and was elected President of the

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Career Summary

* Consultant and Clinical Director of Department of Physical Medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, 1966-1990 *Director of School of Physiotherapy, St Thomas' Hospital *Consultant Rheumatologist to

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*Consultant at St George's Hospital, 1990-1999

Career

Yates qualified as a physician in 1953. After national service with the

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, and the Suez Canal, he became a member of the

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in 1957. His rheumatological training began at St Thomas’s, specialising in locomotor medicine and

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. He also spent a year at the

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to train in systemic

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. He published many research papers on

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and muscle. In 1966 he became consultant in charge of the department of physical medicine at St Thomas' Hospital and remained in charge until 1990. He was director of the school of physiotherapy at St Thomas’, and also consultant rheumatologist to King Edward VII Hospital and honorary consultant adviser in rheumatology to the

. From 1990, he continued in private practice at St George's Hospital until his retirement from clinical practice in 1999. In the field of

he was president of the Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Section of the

from 1980. He was President of the ''British Association for Rheumatology'' from 1982 to 1984. He contributed to committees at the

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. He died following a garden accident in September 2004.

Degrees

*1953 - Bachelor of Medicine (London) *1953 - Bachelor of Surgery (London) *1960 - Doctor of Medicine (London)

Publications

* ''Unilateral sciatica with neurological involvement: a correlated clinical and electrodiagnostic study'' (1963) * ''Epidural myelography: a pioneering technique for evaluating spine problems in the pre-axial tomography days'' (1965)

Honours

* Lord Riddell Medical Scholarship, 1950 * Member of the

, 1957 * Council Prize of the British Association of Physical Medicine, 1965 * Fellow of the

, 1973 * Honorary Consultant Adviser in Rheumatology to the

* President of the Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Section of the

, 1980 * President of the British Association for Rheumatology (later the British Society for Rheumatology), 1982-1984

Other

* President of the

References

Dr D.A.H Yates at BMJ
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yates, Anthony 1930 births 2004 deaths British rheumatologists People educated at Gresham's School Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians People from Holt, Norfolk Alumni of King's College London