Background
Tunstall-Pedoe, Hugh David was born on December 30, 1939 in Southampton, England. Son of Daniel and Mary (Tunstall) P.
Tunstall-Pedoe, Hugh David was born on December 30, 1939 in Southampton, England. Son of Daniel and Mary (Tunstall) P.
Bachelor, Cambridge University, 1961. Bachelor of Medicine, BChir, Master of Arts, Cambridge University, 1964. Doctor of Medicine, Cambridge University, 1977.
House officer Guy's Brompton Hospitals, London, 1964-1966. Senior house officer Guy's, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, 1966-1968. Registrar, cardiology and medicine London Hospital, 1968-1969.
Science staff Medical Research Council Social Medicine Unit, London, 1969-1973. Honorary senior registrar, cardiology department London Hospital, 1969-1974. Senior lecturer, epidemiology department, consultant/community physician St. Mary's Hospital, London, 1974-1981.
Director, cardiovascular epidemiology unit, professor, senior lecturer Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Scotland, since 1981. Director Tower Hamlets Coronary Project, London, 1969-1973. Lecturer department medicine, London Hospital, 1971-1973.
Rapporteur World Health Organization Monica Project, Geneva, since 1979. Consultant Singapore Government, 1987. Science committee Coronary Prevention Group, London, 1989.
Director World Health Organization Quality Control Centre, since 1983, World Health Organization Collaborative Centre, 1988.
Fellow Royal College Physicians (London, Edinburgh), Royal Society Medicine, American Heart Association (section epidemiology 1988), European Society Cardiology (founding member. Working group on epidemiology secretary 1983-1985, chairman 1985-1987), British Cardiac Society, Resuscitation Council.
Married Jacqueline Helen Burbidge, June 24, 1967. Children: William, Susan, Oliver.