Professor Christopher John Dickinson DM, FRCP,

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(1927-2015), known as John, was a British physician and clinical researcher. Dickinson was born on 1 February 1927. He underwent medical training at Oxford University and at University College Hospital, London. He worked at University College Hospital from 1964, and became Professor of Medicine (in 1974) and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at

St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College , mottoeng = Temper the bitter things in life with a smile , parent = Queen Mary University of London , president = Lord Mayor of London , head_label = Warden , head = Mark Caulfield , students = 3,410 , undergrad = 2,23 ...

, retiring in 1982. He was subsequently Emeritus Visiting Professor at the

Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine , mottoeng = Temper the bitter things in life with a smile , parent = Queen Mary University of London , president = Lord Mayor of London , head_label = Warden , head = Mark Caulfield , students = 3,410 , undergrad = 2,23 ...

. He was a member of the Medical Research Council and Chairman of the British Medical Research Society. He was also Secretary of the

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, an Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary University of London, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), and an

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(ARCO). He died on 30 September 2015.

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