Education
University of Birmingham.
University of Birmingham.
Sir Charles George was President of the British Medical Association from 2004 to 2005. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Southampton University from 1975 to 1999, and Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Southampton University from 1986 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1998. He was medical director of the British Heart Foundation from 1999 to 2004.
George graduated from Birmingham University with an Intercalated Bachelor of Science in Anatomy in 1962, and a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in Medicine in 1965.
Charles George was knighted for services to medicine and medical education in 1998. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Birmingham in 2003, an honorary Doctor of Medicine by the University of Southampton in 2004, and an honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Leicester in 2007.