Carol M. Black
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Professor Dame Carol M. Black (DBE, PRCP, MACP, FMedSci) is Professor of Rheumatology at the Royal Free and University College Medical School and is the UK Government's Director for Health and Work. Between 2002 and 2006 she was President of the Royal College of Physicians between 2002 and 2006.
She is a member of the Council of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a member of the Post Graduate Medical Education & Training Board, Vice Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, a Governor of the Health Foundation and the Picker Institute and Chair of the Nuffield Trust. She is also the Non-Executive Director of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
Dame Carol has a special interest in connective tissue diseases and runs the major clinical and basic research centre in Europe for scleroderma and related disorders.
Dame Carol holds four degrees from the University of Bristol.[1] and in June 2007 she received an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Glasgow.
