Peter Fisher (physician)

For other people named Peter Fisher, see Peter Fisher (disambiguation).

Peter Antony Goodwin Fisher, FRCP (b. 1950), is a prominent figure in the international homeopathic medical community.. He currently serves as Clinical Director and Director of Research at the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine. He is editor-in-chief of Homeopathy. He is Clinical Lead of the National Institutes for Health and Clinical Excellence of the UK National Health Service for Evidence in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and is a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Traditional and Complementary Medicine.

Fisher's interest in homeopathy began during a trip to China while a medical student at Cambridge University. He later trained as a junior doctor on call at The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital.

Personal

Born 2 September 1950, he is the son of Antony Martin Fisher and Eve Fisher. He married Nina Oxenham in 1997; they have two daughters.

Education

• Tonbridge School
• Emmanuel College, Cambridge (BA 1972, MA 1975; MB BChir 1975)
• Westminster Hospital Medical School

Career

• FRSocMed 1984
• FFHom 1986 (Vice Pres., 1991 and 1999)
• Editor, Homeopathy (formerly British Homeopathic Journal), 1986–
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine (formerly the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital)::
  • Consultant Physician, since 1986
  • Director of Research, since 1996
  • Clinical Director, since 1998
  • Medical Director 1998–99
• FRCP 1997
• Clin. Lead, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Specialist Liby, National Library for Health, 2005–
• Chairman, Working Group on Homeopathy, WHO, 2005–

Publications

• Alternative Answers to Arthritis and Rheumatism, 1999
• Numerous articles on homeopathy, including:
  • Homeopathy and the Lancet from the Oxford University journal eCAM (Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine) 3(1):145-147, 26 January 2006, doi:10.1093/ecam/nek007 online
  • Fisher P, Chatfield K, Mathie R. Homeopathy in childhood asthma Thorax 2003; 58: 827 ISI Medline
  • The Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital needs your support, 9 March 2007.
  • McCarney R, Warner J, Fisher P, Van Haselen R (2003). McCarney, Robert W (ed.). "Homeopathy for dementia". Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online) (1): CD003803. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD003803. PMID 12535487.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Dantas F, Fisher P, Walach H; et al. (2007). "A systematic review of the quality of homeopathic pathogenetic trials published from 1945 to 1995". Homeopathy : the journal of the faculty of homeopathy. 96 (1): 4–16. doi:10.1016/j.homp.2006.11.005. PMID 17227742. {{cite journal}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Fisher Peter, Goldacre Ben. "Does homeopathy work?". A debate on the evidence on both sides with Peter Fisher, Clinical Director of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital and Ben Goldacre, medical writer and broadcaster.

References and notes

• Who's Who 2008