Dame Carol Black
Professor Dame Carol Black is National Director for Health and Work, Chairman of the Nuffield Trust, President of the British Lung Foundation, and Pro-Chancellor at the University of Bristol.
She is the immediate past-President of the Royal College of Physicians, and recently stepped down as Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. The Centre she established at the Royal Free Hospital, London is the major centre in Europe for clinical care and research on fibrosing connective tissue diseases, and is internationally renowned.
Since the early 1990s she has worked at board level in a number of organisations. She recently served as Chairman of the UK Health Honours Committee, and is on the Main Committee for the Queen’s Awards for Voluntary Service. She is a member of many national committees aiming to improve healthcare, is a Foreign Affiliate of the Institute of Medicine USA, and has been awarded many honorary degrees and fellowships.
