Name:
Dr Andrew Hitchings
Organisation:
St George's, University of London
Year elected:
2021
Primary professional setting:
Clinical
Dr Hitchings is a senior lecturer in clinical pharmacology at St George’s, University of London. He graduated in medicine at Bart’s and The London School of Medicine in 2004, with distinctions in medicine, surgery and clinical pharmacology, and a first-class honours degree in experimental pathology. He completed a PhD at St George’s, University of London in 2015, having completed a multicentre, investigator-led clinical trial. He is chief examiner for medical finals and lead for clinical pharmacology and prescribing teaching on the St George’s medicine programme. He is a member of the assessment and executive boards for the Prescribing Safety Assessment and a question writer for the MRCP(UK) written examinations. He has co-authored three textbooks of clinical pharmacology, including ‘The Top 100 Drugs’, which frequently tops best-seller charts for medical and pharmacology textbooks. He is a member of a NICE technology appraisal committee and a clinical guideline committee, and chairs the St George's drugs and therapeutics committee. Clinically, he practices as a consultant in neurointensive care at St George's Hospital.