Brian Jarman

Sir Brian Jarman
Sir Brian Jarman
Personal details
Born	9 July 1933[1]; Romford, Essex, England
Alma mater	St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Imperial College London[1]

Sir Brian Jarman OBE FRCGP FRCP FMedSci (born 9 July 1933) is a retired English physician and academic. He was Professor of Primary Health Care from 1983−98 at Imperial College School of Medicine and President of the British Medical Association from 2003−4.[2]

The Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (HSMR) methodology was developed by Jarman, director of the Dr Foster Unit at Imperial College, London.[3] This method was applied by Dr Foster Intelligence.

Education

Jarman was educated at Barking Abbey School.[1] Jarman originally trained in the natural sciences, graduating from St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1954, and completing a PhD in Geophysics at Imperial College in 1960. After working for Shell for three years, Jarman switched to medicine, completing a medical degree at Imperial College in 1969. He was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard in 1970 and later occasional lecturer.[1]

Honours

Jarman received the OBE in 1988, and was knighted in 1998 Birthday Honours.[4]
He gave the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians in 1999, on "The Quality of Care in Hospitals".
Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (FRCGP) 1984, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) 1988, Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health 1999 (FFPH).,[5] Fellow of Imperial College 1999, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) 2000

References

Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
Imperial College, Emeritus Professor Brian Jarman
Jarman, Brian; Gault, Simon; Alves, Bernadette; Hider, Amy; Dolan, Susan; Cook, Adrian; Hurwitz, Brian; Iezzoni, Lisa I (5 June 1999). "Explaining differences in English hospital death rates using routinely collected data". BMJ. 318 (7197): 1515–1520. doi:10.1136/bmj.318.7197.1515. PMC 27892. PMID 10356004.
"Queen's Birthday Honours 1998". The Independent. 13 June 1998. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
Debretts, Brian Jarman

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[burke-1] Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.

[2] Imperial College, Emeritus Professor Brian Jarman

[3] Jarman, Brian; Gault, Simon; Alves, Bernadette; Hider, Amy; Dolan, Susan; Cook, Adrian; Hurwitz, Brian; Iezzoni, Lisa I (5 June 1999). "Explaining differences in English hospital death rates using routinely collected data". BMJ. 318 (7197): 1515–1520. doi:10.1136/bmj.318.7197.1515. PMC 27892. PMID 10356004.

[Independent_13June1998-4] "Queen's Birthday Honours 1998". The Independent. 13 June 1998. Retrieved 12 June 2015.

[5] Debretts, Brian Jarman