Sir (Kurt) George (Matthew Mayer) Alberti (born 27 September 1937) is the British Government's National Clinical Director for Emergency Access1. He has been Professor and Dean of Medicine at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and President of the Royal College of Physicians.
Alberti is driving controversial2 changes to emergency care in the UK, leading to many hospitals losing their status as emergency care centres.
Education
Career
- Research Fellow, Harvard University, 1966-69
- Research Officer, Department of Medicine, Oxford University, 1969-73
- Professor of Chemical Pathology and Human Metabolism, University of Southampton, 1973-78
- Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine, University of Southampton, 1978-85
- Professor of Medicine, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1985-2002 (Dean of Medicine, 1995-97)
- National Clinical Director for Emergency Access, since 2002
Honours
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (president, 1997-2002)
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
- Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists
- Member, World Health Organisation Expert Advisory Panel on Diabetes, 1979-
- President, International Diabetes Federation, 2000-03 (Vice-President, 1988-94)
- Vice-Chairman, British Diabetic Association, 1996-99
- Vice President, Diabetes UK, 2000-
- Founder FMedSci 1998 (Member of Council, 1998-2002)
- Knight Bachelor, 2000
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