Name Brian Jarman | ||
Born July 9, 1933 (age 90) ( 1933-07-09 ) Alma mater Cambridge University and Imperial College London | ||
Education Imperial College London |
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Professor Sir Brian Jarman was Professor of Primary Health Care from 1983−98 at Imperial College School of Medicine and President of the British Medical Association from 2003−4.
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The Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (HSMR) methodology was developed by Jarman, director of the Dr Foster Unit at Imperial College, London. This method was applied by Dr Foster Intelligence.
Education
Jarman originally trained in the natural sciences, graduating from Cambridge in 1954, and completing a PhD in Geophysics at Imperial College in 1960. After working for Shell for three years, Jarman switched to medicine, completing a medical degree at Imperial College in 1969. He was a Clinical Fellow at Harvard in 1970 and later occasional lecturer.
He is an alumnus of Barking Abbey School.