John Pemberton (physician)

Professor John Pemberton FRCP (1912-2010) was a British epidemiologist.

Professor

John Pemberton
Born(1912-11-18)18 November 1912
Romford, Essex, England
Died7 February 2010(2010-02-07) (aged 97)
NationalityUnited Kingdom
OccupationEpidemiologist

Pemberton was born on 18 November 1912, in Romford, Essex, to Marie Lottie (née Talbot) and Augustus Charles Pemberton, the latter being a steward at Christ's Hospital, Horsham.[1]

He studied at Christ's Hospital and then at University College London, where he qualified in medicine in 1936, subsequently working at University College Hospital and then Miller General Hospital.[1] He was excused military service during World War II, as he had tuberculosis.[1]

In 1958 he became Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine at Queen's University Belfast, retiring in 1976 and becoming emeritus.[2] He was also a consultant in Social and Preventive Medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.[2]

in 1957 he was both founder member and first treasurer of the Society for Social Medicine and co-founder of the International Epidemiological Association.[2]

He died on 7 February 2010.[1]

References
  1. "Munks Roll Details for John Pemberton". Munks Roll. Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  2. Andy Ness; Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2002), Population-based Research in South Wales: The MRC Pneumoconiosis Research Unit and the MRC Epidemiology Unit, Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, ISBN 978-0-85484-081-6, Wikidata Q29581659
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