About Richard Thompson
Born 1940. Richard Thompson is a British physician.
Sir Richard Paul Hepworth Thompson, (born 14 April 1940) is a British physician and past president of the Royal College of Physicians in London.
Biography Thompson studied medicine at Oxford University and St Thomas' Hospital, and specialised in gastroenterology. He conducted research with Prof Roger Williams, and at the Mayo Clinic. He was appointed consultant at St Thomas' from 1972 until his retirement in 2005. He continued to conduct research in nutritional gastroenterology. He was a member of the Medical Household of Elizabeth II, and head from 1993 until 2005. In 2014 Professor Jane Dacre was elected as his successor.
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Richard Thompson was born on 14 April 1940.
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