Hermon Dowling

Hermon Dowling is a British physician and a past president of the British Society of Gastroenterology.

Hermon Dowling
Born
Northern Ireland
NationalityUnited Kingdom
EducationCampbell College
Alma mater
OccupationGastroenterologist
Employer

Dowling was born in Northern Ireland, attended Campbell College, and graduated from Queen's University of Belfast in 1959.[1]

After holding junior and academic posts at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast under Professor Sir Graham Bull, he undertook further training in gastroenterology, at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School under Professor Sir Christopher Booth.[1] He subsequently worked at Boston University Medical Center as a Medical Research Council/Wellcome Travelling Fellow.[1] In 1968, he took up a post as a consultant at Hammersmith Hospital.[1]

He was elected president of the British Society of Gastroenterology for the 1996-1997 period,[1] and served as President of the European Society for Clinical Investigation and as the founding Secretary of the United European Gastroenterology Federation.[2]

References
  1. "BSG President's biography". Gut. 39 (3): 495–495. 1 September 1996. doi:10.1136/gut.39.3.495. PMC 1382831.
  2. Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2000). Intestinal Absorption. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-1-84129-017-1. Wikidata Q29581641.


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