Gareth Williams

Gareth Williams is Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Bristol, UK. After a clinical research career in diabetes and obesity, he became Dean of Medicine in Bristol in 2003. He now writes about the history of medicine and science; his title Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox was shortlisted for the Wellcome Medical Book Award in 2010. He is a former President of the Anglo-French Medical Society and in 2013 was appointed a Polio Ambassador by the British Polio Fellowship.