Sir Malcolm Green is a retired British physician who was Vice-Principal of the

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and Head of the

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(NHLI).

Career

He studied medicine at

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and then St Thomas' Medical School before being appointed consultant physician in 1975 at

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and the

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, a position he held for much (1975–2006) of his career. Throughout his working life, his main interest was respiratory physiology and respiratory muscle function, both healthy and diseased. In 1985 he founded the British Lung Foundation, after which he was its chairman for 10 years and thereafter its President. He was Dean of the NHLI from 1988-1990. He also acted as Director of the

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(1991–1996) and, for a time, Head of Research and Development for the National Health Service (NHS). In 1997, he was appointed Vice-Principal for Postgraduate Medicine and Campus Dean at

. He was awarded the

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medal for 2005. He was knighted for his services to medicine in the

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References

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