Background
He is the son of a Fellow of the RSM, and was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Saint Bartholomew"s Hospital, London.
He is the son of a Fellow of the RSM, and was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Saint Bartholomew"s Hospital, London.
Noel. Williamson (since 1942) is Professor and Head of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Hammersmith Hospital, London and a former Dean and president of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM). In 1979, he was appointed Professor of Surgery at the University of Bristol and in 1987 he moved a position as Professor & Director of Surgery of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. He has served as:
Senior Editor of the British Journal of Surgery,
editor of the journal Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary published by the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association
President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland,
Secretary-General and then President of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association,
President of the James IV Association of Surgeons and President, and
President of the European Society of Surgery.