Pioneering medic receives knighthood at Buckingham Palace

PA353/10 A leading University of Nottingham medical professor has received a Knighthood in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace today. Professor Sir Peter Rubin received the honour for his distinguished services to medicine both locally, as a practising NHS clinician and Boots Professor of Therapeutics at the University, and nationally, as Chairman of the UK's medical regulatory body, the General Medical Council (GMC). As Dean of the University's Faculty of Medicine between 1997 and 2003, he was a pioneer of modern medical and veterinary education at Nottingham, leading the foundation of the Graduate Medical School at the Royal Derby Hospital and the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University's Sutton Bonington campus, now among the most popular in the UK. He is a specialist in clinical pharmacology especially in the fields of high blood pressure and medical problems in pregnancy. Despite his current high profile role nationally, setting standards for medical education and practice with the GMC, he still works as clinical academic at the University and as honorary consultant in Nottingham. The investiture by the Prince of Wales took place in the Ballroom of Buckingham Palace at 11am on Thursday 9 December. Prof Sir Peter Rubin said: "Receiving a knighthood is a wonderful honour.