John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant
John Nicholas Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant, of Detchant in the County of Northumberland ( born September 16, 1922) is a British neurologist who is a member of the House of Lords since 1989.
Life
Neurologist and doctors as well as medical officer
After schooling Walton graduated in medicine at the Newcastle Medical School, which at that time belonged to the University of Durham. After graduation, he worked as a doctor, specializing in neurology.
Since the mid- 1970s he increasingly took positions in national medical and medical organization and was among other things, 1974-1978 Member of the Medical Research Council ( Medical Research Council ) and 1980-1982 President of the British Medical Association ( BMA). He then took over in 1982, the Office of the President of the General Medical Council (GMC ), and practiced from this until 1989. He was also in this period between 1984 and 1986 President of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1987 to 1988, president of the Association of British Neurologists ( Association of British Neurologists ).
Most recently, Walton was also active in international medical associations and was initially between 1987 and 1989 First Vice-President and then from 1989 to 1997 president of the World Federation of Neurology (World Federation of Neurology ).
Due to his many years of service, he was also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences.
House of Lords member
1989 Walton was raised by a Letters Patent as a life peer with the title Baron Walton of Detchant, of Detchant in the County of Northumberland in the peerage. On July 24, 1989, his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the House of Lords, Lord Walton is one of the non-party peers, the so-called Cross Bencher.
During his many years of membership in the House of Lords, he was between 1992 and 1996 and again from 1997 to 2001 a member of the House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology. During his first committee membership, he was also between 1993 and 1994 Chairman of the Committee for Ethics in Medicine.
Even after his retirement as a physician, Lord Walton hired on in many medical organizations such as President of the College of Occupational Therapists, the Neuroscience Research Foundation and the Durham and Newcastle Medical Graduates Association. He is also Vice President of the Epilepsy Research Foundation and the Parkinson 's Disease Society
In addition, he also works for other institutions and functions, for example as a Director of Newcastle University, and as president of the golf club of Bamburgh Castle, the Belford Belford Development Trust and the show. Furthermore, Lord Walton is Vice President of Guideposts Trust and the Research Defence Society.