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Professor G M Besser DSc MD FRCP FMedSci

Consultant Endocrinologist

Besser

 

 

Contact details

The London Clinic

Consulting Rooms

5 Devonshire Place

London W1G 6HL

 

tel 020 7034 6215

 

fax 020 7616 7791

 

endo@thelondonclinic.co.uk

 

Medical secretary

Carol Gay

 

Consulting times

Monday afternoon
Tuesday all day
Wednesday all day
Thursday morning
Friday morning

Specialty

Endocrinology

General internal medicine        

 

Additional specialties

Pituitary disease: pituitary tumours, acromegaly, prolactinomas, hypopituitarism
Thyroid disease: thyrotoxicosis, Graves’ disease, hypothyroidism, thyroiditis, thyroid nodular disease, carcinoma of the thyroid
Cushing’s syndrome, adrenocortical deficiency, Conn’s syndrome, carcinoma of the adrenal
Gonadal imbalance
Polycystic ovarian disease
Metabolic syndrome in women and men
Neuroendocrine tumours of gut, pancreas and lung
Phaeochromocytoma, paraganglioma
Carcinoid syndrome
Endocrine oncology
General clinical endocrinology
Diseases of the hypothalamus, bone, ovaries and testes

 

The London Clinic activties

Past member – Medical Advisory Committee
Chair – Physicians’ Committee
Member – Clinical Governance Committee, Cancer Board, Bariatric Group

Member, The London Clinic Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes

 

 

Medical training

Medical College – St Bartholomew’s Hopsital, University of London, Hammersmith Hospital, Royal Brompton Hospital


Department of Endocrinology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (National Institutes of Health Fellow)

 

Charities and affiliations

Member – Endocrine Society, USA
Society for Endocrinology, UK
Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland
European Neuroendocrine Association
Pituitary Society
Honorary Member – Association of American Physicians
Honorary Member – German Endocrine Society
Trustee – William Harvey Research Foundation and the St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College Trust
Royal Society of Medicine – past President of the Endocrine section)

 

Awards

MD (HonorisCausa, University of Turin)

Foundation Fellow – Academy of Medical Scienes

Endocrinology prize – European Neuroendodrince association

 

William Julius Mickle Fellowship for the Advancement of Medical Sciences – University of London

 

Goulstonian,  Lilly and Lumlean Lecturer – Royal College of Physicians

 

Honorary Member – Association of American Physicians

 

Society medalist and jubilee medalist – Society for Endocrinology

 

Medalist – Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

Medalist – Serbian Academy of Scienes

Honorary Fellow – Royal Society of Medicine
Citation Classic – including in “Current Contacts” 1000 most cited author (1988)
Named one of Britain’s 250 best private doctors – Tatler magazine – June 2007

 

Publications

Over 600 publications appearing in journals of clinical endocrinology and basic endocrinology

 

Current posts

Professor of Medicine emeritus – St Bartholomew’s Hospital &The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
Honorary Consultant Physician – Barts and the London NHS Trust

 

Teaching

Professor of Medicine – St Bartholomew’s Hospital and St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London

 

Personal interests

European art, ancient Chinese ceramics, opera, ballet and theatre