Brian Jarman
| Brian Jarman | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | July 9, 1933[1] |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University and Imperial College London[1] |
Professor Sir Brian Jarman OBE FRCGP FRCP FMedSci 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.[1][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 originally trained in the natural sciences, graduating from 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.[1] He was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard in 1970 and later occasional lecturer.
He is an alumnus of Barking Abbey School.[1]
Honours
- Jarman received the OBE in 1988, and was knighted in 1998.[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
- 1 2 3 4 5 Brian Jarman CV, brianjarman.com
- ↑ 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: 1515. doi:10.1136/bmj.318.7197.1515.
- ↑ "Queen's Birthday Honours 1998". The Independent. 13 June 1998. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
- ↑ Debretts, Brian Jarman