Background
Watkins, Peter John was born on February 6, 1936 in Manchester, England. Son of Kenneth Harold and Irmgard Madeleine (Herrmann) Watkins.
Watkins, Peter John was born on February 6, 1936 in Manchester, England. Son of Kenneth Harold and Irmgard Madeleine (Herrmann) Watkins.
Bachelor, Cambridge (England) University, 1958; Bachelor of Medicine, BChir, Cambridge (England) University, 1961; Doctor of Medicine, Cambridge (England) University, 1968.
Junior resident appointments, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, 1961-1965; senior house officer, General Hospital, Birmingham, England, 1965-1966; research fellow, General Hospital, Birmingham, England, 1966-1968; senior registrar, General Hospital, Birmingham, England, 1968-1971; consultant physician, King's College Hospital, London, since 1971; honorary senior lecturer, King's College School Medicine and Dentistry, London, since 1987. Director postgraduate medical education King's College Hospital, 1989-1998. Visiting professor Amsterdam Medical Center, 1985.
Fellow Royal College Physicians. Member British Diabetic Association (chairman medical and science section 1990-1993), European Diabetic Nephropathy Study Group (president since 1996), Association Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland (secretary-treas.1983-1993).
Married Gillian Barbara Fowler, February 7, 1970 (deceased 1985). Children: Julia Rachel, Sara Helen, Benedict Kenneth. Married Valerie Joan Brown, February 20, 1993.