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}}'''Hugh Edward Montgomery''' is a [[professor]] and the director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance at [[University College London]]. He discovered that an [[allele]] of the gene with the DNA code for [[angiotensin-converting enzyme]] (ACE) influences physical fitness; the first discovery of a gene related to fitness.<ref name="ace"/><ref>[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/people/show.php?personid=11979 Prof Hugh Montgomery UCL] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090524145902/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/people/show.php?personid=11979 |date=2009-05-24 }}</ref>
}}'''Hugh Edward Montgomery''' is a [[professor]] and the director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance at [[University College London]]. He discovered that an [[allele]] of the gene with the DNA code for [[angiotensin-converting enzyme]] (ACE) influences physical fitness; the first discovery of a gene related to fitness.<ref name="ace"/><ref>[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/people/show.php?personid=11979 Prof Hugh Montgomery UCL] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090524145902/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/people/show.php?personid=11979 |date=2009-05-24 }}</ref>


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Montgomery is the author of the children's book ''[[The Voyage of the Arctic Tern]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gordon|first1=Bryony|title=I'm Always Adding Strings To My Bow|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/4493031/Im-always-adding-strings-to-my-bow.html|accessdate=4 February 2017|agency=The Telegraph (U.K.)|date=11 June 2002}}</ref>
Montgomery is the author of the children's book ''[[The Voyage of the Arctic Tern]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gordon|first1=Bryony|title=I'm Always Adding Strings To My Bow|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/4493031/Im-always-adding-strings-to-my-bow.html|accessdate=4 February 2017|agency=The Telegraph (U.K.)|date=11 June 2002}}</ref>
As well as two fiction novels "Cloudsailors" and "Control".
He authored three medical books: "My first MRCP Book" , "Surviving Prescribing" and "100 Questions in Cardiology".
Montgomery edits the "Puzzling Out..." medical series.


==Awards and honours==
==Awards and honours==

Revision as of 15:04, 29 September 2018

Hugh Montgomery
Born
Hugh Edward Montgomery

(1962-10-20) 20 October 1962 (age 62)[1]
Plymouth, U.K.,
Alma materMiddlesex Hospital Medical School
Known for
"Fitness gene"
ChildrenOscar “Boshy” Montgomery and Fergus "Chops" Montgomery
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine
InstitutionsUniversity College London
Websitetwitter.com/hugh_montgomery

Hugh Edward Montgomery is a professor and the director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance at University College London. He discovered that an allele of the gene with the DNA code for angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) influences physical fitness; the first discovery of a gene related to fitness.[2][3]

Academic career

Montgomery was educated at Plymouth College and qualified as a medical doctor in July 1987 from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London.[4] He leads a research group in cardiovascular genetics which has published over 100 publications including original research papers in journals such as Nature, The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine.[2][5][6][7][8]

He holds an appointment as a Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at UCL and practises as a consultant in critical care at the Whittington Hospital in north London.

Other interests

Montgomery has several notable achievements outside the field of medicine. He has been awarded the title of London Leader by the London Sustainable Development Commission for his work in climate change and health under the auspices of Project Genie; he was also a founding member of the UK Climate and Health Council and one of the co-authors of the UCL-Lancet Commission" in 2009. Montgomery is also a published children's book author.

Montgomery has a wide variety of interests.[9] Montgomery has complemented his interest in fitness with achievements which include the 100 km ultra marathons, holding the world record for underwater piano playing as well as visiting Everest with the Xtreme Everest research group to undertake research.[10]

He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access journal Extreme Physiology & Medicine, published by BioMed Central.[11]

Montgomery is the author of the children's book The Voyage of the Arctic Tern.[12] As well as two fiction novels "Cloudsailors" and "Control". He authored three medical books: "My first MRCP Book" , "Surviving Prescribing" and "100 Questions in Cardiology". Montgomery edits the "Puzzling Out..." medical series.

Awards and honours

References

  1. ^ "Montgomery, Prof. Hugh Edward". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Montgomery, H. E.; Marshall, R.; Hemingway, H.; Myerson, S.; Clarkson, P.; Dollery, C.; Hayward, M.; Holliman, D. E.; Jubb, M.; World, M.; Thomas, E. L.; Brynes, A. E.; Saeed, N.; Barnard, M.; Bell, J. D.; Prasad, K.; Rayson, M.; Talmud, P. J.; Humphries, S. E. (1998). "Human gene for physical performance". Nature. 393 (6682): 221. doi:10.1038/30374.
  3. ^ Prof Hugh Montgomery UCL Archived 2009-05-24 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "List of Registered Medical Practitioners (The online Register)". General Medical Council. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
  5. ^ Hugh Montgomery's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ^ Grocott, M. P.; Martin, D. S.; Levett, D. Z.; McMorrow, R; Windsor, J; Montgomery, H. E.; Caudwell Xtreme Everest Research Group (2009). "Arterial blood gases and oxygen content in climbers on Mount Everest". New England Journal of Medicine. 360 (2): 140–9. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa0801581. PMID 19129527.
  7. ^ "Efficacy of perindopril in reduction of cardiovascular events among patients with stable coronary artery disease: Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial (the EUROPA study)". The Lancet. 362 (9386): 782. 2003. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14286-9.
  8. ^ Costello, A.; Abbas, M.; Allen, A.; Ball, S.; Bell, S.; Bellamy, R.; Friel, S.; Groce, N.; Johnson, A.; Kett, M.; Lee, M.; Levy, C.; Maslin, M.; McCoy, D.; McGuire, B.; Montgomery, H.; Napier, D.; Pagel, C.; Patel, J.; De Oliveira, J. A. P.; Redclift, N.; Rees, H.; Rogger, D.; Scott, J.; Stephenson, J.; Twigg, J.; Wolff, J.; Patterson, C. (2009). "Managing the health effects of climate change". The Lancet. 373 (9676): 1693. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60935-1.
  9. ^ Professor Hugh Montgomery, Desert Island Discs
  10. ^ Grocott, M. P.; Martin, D. S.; Wilson, M. H.; Mitchell, K; Dhillon, S; Mythen, M. G.; Montgomery, H. E.; Levett, D. Z.; Caudwell Xtreme Everest Research Group (2010). "Caudwell xtreme Everest expedition". High Altitude Medicine & Biology. 11 (2): 133–7. doi:10.1089/ham.2009.1093. PMID 20586597.
  11. ^ Grocott, M. P.; Montgomery, H. E. (2012). "Extreme Physiology & Medicine: A new journal focussed on integrative human physiology under stress". Extreme Physiology & Medicine. 1: 1. doi:10.1186/2046-7648-1-1.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  12. ^ Gordon, Bryony (11 June 2002). "I'm Always Adding Strings To My Bow". The Telegraph (U.K.). Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  13. ^ Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2007: Back from the brink: the science of survival
  14. ^ Hugh Montgomery address on Science & Environment, Royal Institution Unconference, September 2011
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