Kenneth Hunter (physician)

Kenneth Ross Hunter

diabetes.^[1]

Education

Hunter was born in Glasgow and educated at

Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP).^[1]

Physician

Hunter completed his MD and was appointed to a general medical rotating post in Bristol, though he started in Plymouth, and this is where he began working with diabetes.[1] After four years in Bristol he was seconded to Hammersmith Hospital in London, to receive specialist training in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics.^[1] He was the first person to qualify in this new discipline in the United Kingdom.^[1] Unfortunately, the post that was created for him had to be cancelled because of a financial crisis and cutbacks.^[1]

In March 1977, Hunter was appointed as a general physician with a special interest in diabetes to the

multidisciplinary approach enabled the Plymouth centre to become the first in the United Kingdom to move all its patients on to a new form and strength of insulin.^[1]

Hunter was a member of the British Medical Association national committee, the regional manpower committee, and sat on numerous committees at hospital, district and regional levels.^[1] In 1983, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) for whom he was a regional adviser and examiner.^[1] Hunter was also awarded an honorary fellowship by the College of Occupational Therapists in 1992.^[1] He published numerous research papers during his career.

In 2001, Hunter gave the FitzPatrick lecture at the Royal College of Physicians.^[1] He spoke about the career of John Clarke, whose 1781 notes from John Hunter's lectures on surgery had been found in Plymouth.^[3]^[1] Hunter also served as both secretary and treasurer of the Plymouth Medical Society.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t "Kenneth Ross Hunter". Royal College of Physicians. 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
^ "K R Hunter" (PDF). The Strathallian. December 1963. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
^ Hunter, Kenneth Ross (4 April 2001). John Clarke (1760 – 1815): one of John Hunter’s Pupils (Speech). 2001 FitzPatrick lecture. Royal College of Physicians, London. Retrieved 12 October 2015.

[rcp-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t "Kenneth Ross Hunter". Royal College of Physicians. 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2015.

[strath-2] "K R Hunter" (PDF). The Strathallian. December 1963. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2015.

[speech-3] Hunter, Kenneth Ross (4 April 2001). John Clarke (1760 – 1815): one of John Hunter’s Pupils (Speech). 2001 FitzPatrick lecture. Royal College of Physicians, London. Retrieved 12 October 2015.

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