Sir (Kurt) George (Matthew Mayer) Alberti (born 27 September 1937) was the British Government's National Clinical Director for Emergency Access^[1]. He has been Professor and Dean of Medicine at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and President of the Royal College of Physicians.

Alberti drove controversial^[2] changes to emergency care in the UK, leading to some hospitals losing their status as emergency care centres.

Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Honours 4 Notes

[edit] Education

• Balliol College, Oxford (MA; DPhil 1964; BM BCh 1965; Honorary Fellow 1999).

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Notes

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