The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (1968–1999) was a London centre for the study and teaching of medical history. It consisted of the Wellcome Library and an Academic Unit. The former was and is a world-class library collection owned and managed by the Wellcome Trust and staffed by librarians including academic librarians who held honorary lectureships at University College London. The Academic Unit was a group of university staff appointed at University College London that conducted a program of university teaching, thesis supervision, seminars, conferences and publications.
Directors of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
1913-1936 Henry S. Wellcome, LLD, DSc, FRS (Founder and Director)1913-1925 C.J.S. Thompson, MBE (Curator)1925-1934 L.W.G. Malcolm, MSc, PhD, FRSE (Conservator)1934-1947 PJ. Johnston-Saint, MA, FRSE (Conservator)1941-1945 S.H. Daukes, OBE, MD1946-1964 E.A. Underwood, MD, FRCP1964-1973 F.N.L. Poynter, BA, PhD, Hon MD, FLA1973-1979 E. Clarke, MD, FRCP1980-1981 Prof. A.R. Hall, MA, LittD, FBA (Chairman)1981-1983 P.O. Williams, MB, FRCP1983-1987 Prof. William Paton, CBE, DM, FRCP, FRS1900-1913 C.J.S. Thompson1913-1918 T.W. Huck, FLA1919-1921 C.C. Barnard, MLA1921-1925 W.R.B. Prideaux, BA, FLA1925-1931 C.R. Hewitt, FLA1932-1946 S.A.J. Moorat, MA, DipLib1946-1953 W.J. Bishop, FLA1954-1964 F.N.L. Poynter, BA, PhD, Hon MD, FLA1964-1973 E. Gaskell, BA, ALA1973-1996 E.J. Freeman, BA, ALA1996–2004 David PearsonIn 1999 the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine was terminated, and in its place two new organisations were created: The Wellcome Library and the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. The following persons succeeded David Pearson as Librarians of the Wellcome Library.
2004--2009 Frances Norton2010-2014 Simon Chaplin2015- Robert Kiley (acting)William Bynum MA MD PhD MRCP (Head) Allen MA PhD (Life Sciences)Janet Browne MA PhD (Life Sciences)Lawrence Conrad PhD (Islamic Medicine)Christopher Lawrence MB ChB PhD (Clinical Medicine)Michael Neve MA PhD (Human Biology)Vivian Nutton MA PhD (Classical Medicine)Roy Porter MA PhD (Social History of Medicine)Elizabeth (Tilli) Tansey BSc PhD (Modern Medical Science)Andrew Wear BA MSc PhD (Early Modern Medicine)