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Lawrence Peter Ormerod (born 1950) was an English chest physician.

Ormerod was educated at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School. He qualified as a doctor in 1974 and gained a DSc in 2000 for his work researching tuberculosis.

He is a Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Manchester and at the University of Central Lancashire, and was a consultant for BMI Healthcare at the Beardwood Hospital in Lancashire.

He was appointed to the Joint Tuberculosis Committee in 1987 and served as its chair from 1995 to 2000. He was a consultant adviser on Tuberculosis to the United Kingdom Government's Department of Health, from 1997 to 2003.

He was President of the British Thoracic Society for the year 2008–2009.

References

1. "TB doctor makes Who's Who". Lancashire Telegraph. 12 December 2007. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
2. ^ Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2005). Short-course chemotherapy for tuberculosis. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. Vol. 24. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-104-2. OL 27087444M. Wikidata Q29581694.
3. ^ Healthcare, BMI. "Lawrence Peter Ormerod". BMI Healthcare UK. Retrieved 21 June 2017.

External links

• Peter Ormerod on the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group website

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