Andrew Goddard

Professor Goddard qualified at Cambridge in 1990. After gaining an MD from Cambridge University he trained in Nottingham and was appointed as a consultant physician and gastroenterologist in Derby in 2001. His main clinical and research interests are bowel cancer screening, H. pylori, iron deficiency anaemia and inflammatory bowel disease. He is chair of the British Society of Gastroenterology gastroduodenal section. He was director of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Medical Workforce Unit for five years until being appointed RCP Registrar in 2014. In this role, he oversaw professional and clinical affairs, both in the UK and internationally. His main policy areas were workforce, healthcare funding, the future of general medicine, the medical registrar and ‘keeping medicine brilliant’. In 2018, he was elected the 121st RCP President, the youngest for 400 years and first from the East Midlands, and took up his post in September. His priorities as President are the three Ws – workforce, wellbeing and worldwide. He continues in clinical practice including being on-call at weekends, as well as continuing in clinical research. He strongly believes that medicine is brilliant. Professor Goddard is married with two children.