Volume 27. 'Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis and Coronary Disease in the U.K., 1950-2000'

Series consists of papers, correspondence, photographs, cassette tapes and digital material related to the seminar on "Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis and Coronary Disease in the U.K., 1950-2000", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 8 March 2005. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 27 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), Cholesterol, Atherosclerosis and Coronary Disease in the U.K., 1950-2000, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2006).

The participants for the seminar were; Professor David Barker; Professor John Betteridge; Sir Christopher Booth; Professor Gustav Born; Professor Richard Bruckdorfer; Professor George Davey Smith; Professor Paul Durrington; Professor David Galton; Dr Arthur Hollman; Professor Steve Humphries; Professor Gordon Lowe; Professor Vincent Marks; Dr Paul Miller; Professor Jerry Morris; Professor Michael Oliver (Chair); Professor Chris Packard; Professor Stuart Pocock; Professor Kalevi Pyorala; Professor Thomas Sanders; Professor James Scott; Dr Elspeth Smith; Professor Anne Soutar; Professor Gilbert Thompson; Professor Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe; Professor Neville Woolf; and Professor John S. Yudkin.

The editors of the published transcript were L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey with an introduction by Nick Myant.

The meeting organisers were Professor Michael Oliver and Dr Daphne Christie.

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Others present at the meeting included; Owen Davies; Miguel Garcia-Sancho; Professor Jeremy Pearson; Professor Sir Stanley Peart; Dr Tim Powell; Professor Hilary Rose; Dr Ronald Smith; and John Stewart.

Apologies sent by; Professor Dame Carol Black; David Bowyer; Dr Michael Burr; Professor Rory Collins; Dr Huw Dorkins; Professor Christopher Edwards; Professor Peter Elwood; Professor Gerald Fowkes; Dr Joseph Goldstein; Professor Austin Gresham; Professor Walter Holland; Professor Malcolm Law; Dr Barry Lewis; Professor Ross Lorimer; Professor Sir Michael Marmot; Dr Norman Miller; Dr Malcolm Mitchinson; Dr Nick Myant; Professor Lawrence Ramsay; Professor Gerry Shaper; Professor James Shepherd; Dr Joan Slack; Professor Nicholas Wald; Professor Kenneth Walton; and Professor Peter Weissberg.