Professor Steve Tomlinson

Professor Tomlinson graduated in medicine in 1968 from Sheffield. He did his specialist training in Internal Medicine, Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Medicine at the Middlesex Hospital, London, where he was an MRC Clinical Research Fellow and Senior Registrar. He then did research at MIT in the USA and as a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science back in Sheffield. In 1985 he became Professor of Medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and was Dean of the Medical School and Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing in the University of Manchester (1993-1999). From 1996-1999, Professor Tomlinson was Executive Secretary of the Council of Heads of Medical Schools (CHMS, now Medical Schools Council). He was a Founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998. From 2001, he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales College of Medicine (UWCM) before becoming Deputy Vice-Chancellor, then Provost of Cardiff University following merger with UWCM.

He has been a Consultant Physician in diabetes with the Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust since 2001 and a non-executive Director of the Velindre NHS Trust since 2002. He is Chairman of the Trust’s NHS R+D Committee. In 2002-03 he was President of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland. He is currently Chairman of the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) and ASH Wales.

Professor Tomlinson was a member of the JMAC Review of the RAE in 2002, a member of the HEFCE Steering Group on Postgraduate Research Training and Convenor of the GMC Working Party on Fraud and Misconduct in Medical Research in 1999.

In 2007 Professor Tomlinson was awarded the CBE for services to Medicine in the New Years Honours List.