Thomas Meade
Thomas Meade | |
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| Born | Thomas Wilson Meade 21 January 1936[1] |
| Died | 24 October 2022 (aged 86) London |
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| Spouse | Elizabeth Meade (née Perks) |
| Children | Richard David Meade, Helen Anna Meade, Rebecca Meade. |
| Parent(s) | James Edward Meade, Margaret Elizabeth Meade (née Wilson). |
| Awards | Balzan Prize for Epidemiology |
Thomas Wilson Meade CBE FRS FRCP (21 January 1936 – 24 October 2022) was a British epidemiologist. He was a pioneer in epidemiology—in particular, in the role blood clotting factors have in cardiovascular disease.[2]
Meade underwent medical training at Christ Church, Oxford, and afterwards at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1960.[3]
In 1970, after a period studying at the Schieffelin Leprosy Research Sanatorium in South India,[4] he became Director of the Medical Research Council's Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit.[5] He retired from there in 2001, and became Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, investigating cardiovascular disease.[3]
Meade held Honorary Consultant positions in Epidemiology at St Bartholomew's, and at Northwick Park Hospital.[5]
Meade was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1994 Birthday Honours "For services to Medicine and to Science",[6] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996[3][7] and received the Balzan Prize for epidemiology in 1997.[1]
Tom Meade was a Quaker, attending Hampstead Friends Meeting. He had a son and two daughters, and eight grandchildren.[8] Meade's son, Sir Richard Meade, was appointed a High Court judge in 2020.[9] One of his daughters runs the Railway Land Wildlife Trust in Lewes, Sussex, the other is a NHS medical doctor in London.
Meade died on 24 October 2022, at the age of 86.[10]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Thomas Meade on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website
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