Endocrine Abstracts

A Weetman, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Abstract

Tony Weetman has been the Sir Arthur Hall Professor of Medicine at the University of Sheffield, and Consultant Endocrinologist at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust, since 1991. He was Dean of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences from 1999 to 2008 when he became Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health.

After graduating from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1977, he had trained with Professor Reg Hall at the Welsh National School of Medicine, Dr Tony Fauci at the Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA and Prof. Sir Keith Peters at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London and the University of Cambridge.

Prof. Weetman is a Founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a former editor of Clinical Endocrinology, The British Medical Bulletin and Clinical and Experimental Immunology, and has served as an Associate Editor of Endocrine Reviews.

He received the Merck Prize of the European Thyroid Association in 2002 and gave the Bradshaw and Clinical Endocrinology Trust Lectures in 2006. He was President of the British Thyroid Association (2005–2008) and presently is Chair of the Medical Schools Council and a member of Council of the Royal College of Physicians of London.