Background
Vallance-Owen, John was born on October 31, 1920 in London. Son of Edwin Augustine and Julia May (Vallance) Owen.
physician Professor of Medicine
Vallance-Owen, John was born on October 31, 1920 in London. Son of Edwin Augustine and Julia May (Vallance) Owen.
Master of Arts, Doctor of Medicine, Cambridge University, England, 1946.
Medical 1st assistant to Sir Horace Evans The London Hospital, 1949-1951. Senior medical registrar, medical tutor Royal Postgraduate Medical School London, 1951-1955, 56-58. Consultant physician, lecturer medicine Royal Victoria Infimrary, Newcastle upom Tyne, England, 1958-1964.
Consultant physician, reader medicine Royal Victoria Infirmary, 1964-1966. Consultant physician, professor medicine Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1966-1982. Foundation professor, chairman department medicine Chinese University Hong Kong, 1983-1988, associate dean faculty medicine, 1984-1988.
Director medicine The Maltese Islands, 1981-1982. Honorary consultant medicine Hong Kong Government and Prince Wales Hospital, Shatin, 1984-1988, British Army, Hong Kong, 1985-1988. Visiting professor Royal Postgraduate Med.Sch.
Hammersmith Hospital, London, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London. Consultant physician London Indiana Hospital, Wellington Hospital, London, 2000. Medical advisor on clinical complaints N. Thames Regional Hospital Authority, 1989-1999, Hospital University Pennsylvania.
Essentials of Cardiology 1961, Diabetes: Its Physiological and Biochemical Basis 1974. Numerous papers in scientific journals on carbohydrates and fat metabolism and the aetiology of diabetes mellitus, with special reference to insulin antagonism.
Member India Institute Diabetes Association Physicians Great Britain and Ireland, British Di abetic Association, British Medical Association, European Association Study Diabetes, Hong Kong Medical Association, International Society Internal Medicine, Medical Research Society, East India Club, United Services, Recreation Club (Hong Kong).
Music, tennis, golf, trees.
Married Renée Thornton, June 24, 1950. Children: Andrew, Sarah, Catherine, Colin.