Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg

Leslie Turnberg, Baron Turnberg

Leslie Arnold Turnberg, Baron Turnberg Kt (born March 22, 1934 ) is a British doctor , university professor and Labor Party politician who was President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1992 to 1997 and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2000 .

Life

Degree, doctor and university professor

After schooling Turn Berg graduated in medicine and was then from 1973 to 1997 as a doctor of gastroenterology at Salford Royal , a hospital in Salford , active. At the same time, he accepted a professorship for medicine at the University of Manchester in 1973 and taught there until 1997.

In addition to his activities as a doctor and university lecturer, Turnberg was also involved in various medical and medical institutions and organizations for many years and was a member of the health authority of Salford for the first time between 1974 and 1981 and of the health authority of the North West England region from 1986 to 1989 . After he was again a member of the health authority of Salford between 1990 and 1992, he served from 1992 to 1997 as Margaret Turner-Warwick's successor as President of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Medical officer and member of the House of Lords

In addition, Turnberg, who was promoted to Knight Bachelor in 1994, was chairman of the Conference of Royal Medical Colleges between 1994 and 1996 and was also chairman of the Specialist Training Authority from 1996 to 1998 . After his replacement by George Alberti as President of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1997, he became Chairman of the Public Health Laboratory Services Department and President of the Medical Council Against Alcoholism and held both positions until 2002.

At the same time he was President of the Medical Protection Society (MPS) between 1997 and 2007 and has also been a scientific advisor to the Association of Medical Research Organizations since 1997. In 1998 he also became Vice President of the newly formed Academy of Medical Sciences and held this position until 2004. He was also President of the Health Quality Service from 1999 to 2004 and President of the British Society for Gastroenterology from 1999 to 2000.

On May 4, 2000, he was raised to the nobility by the Letters Patent to Life Peer with the title Baron Turnberg , of Cheadle in the County of Cheshire . On May 9, 2000 he received his Introduction as a member of the House of Lords .

Subsequently, he was President of the Association of Physicians in 2000 and President of the National Center for the Prevention, Reduction and Improvement of the Use of Animals in Research between 2004 and 2007 and chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the National Health Care.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on 7 July 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed July 7, 2012)
• Leslie Turnberg at Hansard (English)