James Scott FRCP, FIBiol, FMedSci, FRS (born 1946) is a British cardiologist. Scott undertook training at the

London Hospital The Royal London Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is part of Barts Health NHS Trust. It provides district general hospital services for the City of London and Tower Hamlets and spe ...

and in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

, then in 1975 took up a position the Academic Department of Medicine at the

Royal Free Hospital The Royal Free Hospital (also known simply as the Royal Free) is a major teaching hospital in the Hampstead area of the London Borough of Camden. The hospital is part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which also runs services at Barn ...

. From 1975 to 1980, Scott was a Medical Research Council Research Fellow and Honorary Senior Registrar at the

Royal Postgraduate Medical School The Royal Postgraduate Medical School (RPMS) was an independent medical school, based primarily at Hammersmith Hospital in west London. In 1988, the school merged with the Institute of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and in 1997 became part of Imperial ...

. He followed this with stints as a European Molecular Biology Fellow at the

University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It cond ...

(1980–1983) and MRC Clinical Scientist and Honorary Consultant Physician at the MRC Clinical Research Centre,

Northwick Park Hospital Northwick Park Hospital (NWPH) is a major National Health Service hospital situated near the town of Harrow, London, Harrow, North West London, managed by the London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust. It is located off Watford Road in th ...

(1983–1991). From 1992, Scott was Honorary Consultant Physician at the

Hammersmith Hospital Hammersmith Hospital, formerly the Military Orthopaedic Hospital, and later the Special Surgical Hospital, is a major teaching hospital in White City, West London. It is part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in the London Borough of H ...

; he was Professor and Chairman of Medicine at the

(1992–1998); and from 1998 Director of the Genetics and Genomics Institute,

Imperial College Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

, and Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute,

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

. He was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

(FRS) in 1997.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, James 1946 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Alumni of University College London 20th-century English medical doctors 21st-century English medical doctors British cardiologists Academics of University College London Academics of Imperial College London University of California, San Francisco faculty Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Biology Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)