Professor Tom Solomon elected vice president of Royal College of Physicians

Professor Tom Solomon has been elected the new academic vice president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP).

Tom has been on RCP Council since 2019, and a clinical academic for 25 years. He is professor of neurology at the University of Liverpool, working as a consultant neurologist at the Walton Centre and Liverpool University Hospitals. He is a director of The Pandemic Institute and the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections at the University of Liverpool. Professor Solomon also works to engage wider audiences in science, including two family science shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

"I am honoured to be elected to represent my clinical colleagues helping to support a thriving research culture across the UK. I do believe, if we can get it right, research and innovation, including med-tech and AI offer many solutions for the challenges that we face in healthcare today,” he commented on the new role. 

Tom will take up the post for three years on 1 August 2024, taking over from outgoing vice president Professor Ramesh Arasaradnam. 

Read the full RCP announcement.