Professor Michael Farthing

Michael Farthing is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex. He was formerly Principal and Professor of Medicine at St. George's, University of London, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Glasgow and before that, Dean of the Faculty of Clinical Medicine at Bart's and the London. He graduated from the University College Hospital Medical School and undertook training posts in Cambridge, London and Boston. He was appointed senior lecturer St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in 1983 and in 1990 he was awarded a personal Chair.

He was editor of Gut from 1996-2002 and is an editorial board member of several international gastroenterology journals. He has taken an active interest in research and publication integrity and in misconduct in biomedical research. He was founding chairman of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics). He is Vice Chair and a member of the Board of the UK Panel for Research Integrity in Health and Biomedical Sciences. Professor Farthing is a member of the GMC's Education Committee and is chair of the group reviewing 'Tomorrow's Doctors'. He was President of the British Society of Gastroenterology until March 2008.