Education
Montgomery was educated at Plymouth College and qualified as a medical doctor in July 1987 from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London.
Montgomery was educated at Plymouth College and qualified as a medical doctor in July 1987 from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London.
He discovered that an allele of the gene with the deoxyribonucleic acid code for angiotensin-converting enzyme (American Council on Exercise) influences physical fitness. The first discovery of a gene related to fitness. He leads a research group in cardiovascular genetics which has published over 100 publications including original research papers in journals such as Nature, The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine.
He holds an appointment as a Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London and practises as a consultant in critical care, cardiology and internal medicine at the Whittington Hospital in north London.
Montgomery is also a published children"s book author Montgomery has a wide variety of interests.
He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access journal Extreme Physiology & Medicine, published by BioMed Central. Hugh Montgomery is married and has two sons.
2007 Presented the televised annual Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on the subject Back from the brink: the science of survival.
He has been awarded the title of London Leader by the London Sustainable Development Commission for his work in climate change and health under the auspices of Project Genie. He was also a founding member of the United Kingdom Climate and Health Council and one of the co-authors of the University College London-Lancet Commission" in 2009.