INDEPENDENT PUBLIC INQUIRY: Contaminated Blood & Blood Products
Lord Turnberg
BORN
22 March 1934PARENTS
Son of Hyman and Dora Turnberg
MARITAL DETAILS
Married Edna Barme 1968 (1 son 1 daughter)
EDUCATED
Stand Grammar School, Whitefield
FURTHER EDUCATION
Manchester University (MB, ChB 1957, MD 1966)PROFESSION
Junior medical posts: Manchester Jewish Hospital, Northern Hospital, Ancoats Hospital, Manchester Royal Infirmary 1957-61 and 1964-66;
Registrar, University College Hospital, London 1961-64;
Lecturer Royal Free Hospital, London 1967;
Research fellow University of Texas South-Western Medical School, Dallas, Texas 1968;
Manchester University:
Lecturer, then senior lecturer 1968-73,
Professor of medicine 1973-97,
Dean, Faculty of medicine 1986-89,
President, Royal College of Physicians 1992-97;
Chair:
Conference of Medical Royal Colleges 1994-96,
Specialist Training Authority 1996-98,
Public Health Laboratory Service Board 1997-2002,
Health Quality Service 1999-2004,
Scientific Adviser, Association of Medical Research Charities 1997-;
National Centre for Regulation, Reduction and Refinement of use of Animals in Research 2004-;
Board member Renovo
President:
Medical Council on Alcoholism 1997-2002,
Medical Protection Society 1997-,
British Society of Gastroenterology 1999-2000;
Vice-president, Academy of Medical Sciences 1998-2004;
PUBLICATIONS
Author of publications on intestinal research and clinical gastroenterology
HONOURS AND DECORATIONS
Kt 1994
HONORARY ACADEMIC DEGREES
Hon DSc:
Salford 1996,
Manchester 1998
Imperial College, London 2000
TRUSTS
Trustee:
Wolfson Foundation,
Haddasah Medical Relief,
Dipex,
Foulkes Foundation
RECREATIONS
Reading, antiquarian books, painting, Chinese ceramics, walking
FELLOWSHIPS
MRCP 1961;
FRCP 1973;
FRCPE 1993;
FRCP(I) 1993;
Hon. Fellow:
Academy of Medicine, Singapore 1994,
College of Medicine, South Africa 1994;
FRCPSGlas 1994;
FCPPak 1994;
Hong Kong Coll of Physns 1995;
FRAustCP 1995;
FRCS 1996;
FRCOphth 1996;
FRCObsGyna 1996;
FRCPsych 1997;
Malaysia Coll of Med 1997;
Physiological Society 2005