George Alberti

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Sir Kurt George Matthew Mayer Alberti (born 27 September 1937) was the British Government's National Clinical Director for Emergency Access.^[1] He has been Professor and Dean of Medicine at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and President of the Royal College of Physicians.

Alberti drove controversial^[2] changes to emergency care in the UK, leading to some hospitals losing their status as emergency care centres.

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Research Fellow, Harvard University, 1966–69
Research Officer, Department of Medicine, Oxford University, 1969–73
Professor of Chemical Pathology and Human Metabolism, University of Southampton, 1973–78
Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Metabolic Medicine, University of Southampton, 1978–85
Professor of Medicine, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1985-2002 (Dean of Medicine, 1995–97)
National Clinical Director for Emergency Access, since 2002
Chair of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, since 2011

Academic offices
Preceded by Sir Leslie Turnberg	President of the Royal College of Physicians 1997–2002	Succeeded by Carol M. Black

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Name	Alberti, George
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Short description	National Clinical Director for Emergency Access
Date of birth	27 September 1937
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