Hermon Dowling is a British physician and a past president of the

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. Dowling was born in Northern Ireland, attended Campbell College, and graduated from

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in 1959. After holding junior and academic posts at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast under Professor Sir Graham Bull, he undertook further training in gastroenterology, at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School under Professor Sir

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. He subsequently worked at

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as a Medical Research Council/Wellcome Travelling Fellow. In 1968, he took up a post as a consultant at

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. In 1974, he was appointed to the first Chair of Gastroenterology in the University of London at Guy's Hospital campus, which was part of the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals from 1982 to 1998. His research programme included studies of intestinal adaptation, gallstones and bile acids. He was elected president of the

for the 1996-1997 period, and served as president of the

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and as the founding Secretary of the United European Gastroenterology Federation.

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* * Videos of a 1973 talk by Dowling, in two parts, made for the

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The formation of gallstones
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The dissolution of gallstones
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