Dr T L Chambers, OBE, JP, FRCP

Dr T L Chambers, OBE, JP, FRCP's Biography

Forename(s)
Timothy Lachlan (Tim)
Sex
Male
Decorations
OBE (2009), JP (Bristol 1993)
Date of Birth
11/2/1946 Croydon, Surrey
Foretitle(s)
Dr
Surname
CHAMBERS
Style
Dr T L Chambers, OBE, JP, FRCP
Recreations
spiritual, sensual, sporting (largely sedentary), flintiness, trying to make everyone at their ease and at home, evading ennui

Dr T L Chambers, OBE, JP, FRCP's Professional Career

Career
consulting physician and nephrologist Bristol Royal Hosp for Children 1979-2010; Univ of Bristol: sr clinical lectr in child health 1979-2010, a clinical dean 1983-90, memb Governing Bd Inst of Child Health 1987-97, memb Ct 1994-99; conslt in paediatrics to MOD 1985-2010, civilian conslt advsr (paediatrics) to RN 1992-2012; Lt Col RAMC (V) 1997-2010 (cmmnd 1984), Lt Col Somerset Cadet Bn (The Rifles) ACF (Bn MO) 2001-12, clinical dir 243 (The Wessex) Field Hosp 2006-08; dep med dir Southmead Health Servs NHS Tst 1994-96; pres: Union of Nat Euro Paediatric Socs and Assocs 1990-94, Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Soc 1996-97, Bristol Div BMA 1999-2000, SW Paediatric Club 2004-06, Bristol Medico-Legal Soc 2007-09; RCP: past censor, cncllr; RCPCH: hon sec (BPA) 1984-89, hon sec Int Bd 1998-2000; regnl advsr RCPEd (SW England) 1996-2001; sec of state's appointee: Bd of Govrs Hosps for Sick Children (London) Special HA 1993-94, Ctee on Safety of Meds 1999-2005 (memb Paediatric Meds Working Gp and Expert Advsy Gp 2000-05 and 2008-12); chm Advsy Bd for the Registration of Homoeopathic Products 2003- (memb 2000-), a UK delg to Paediatric Ctee European Medicines Agency 2008-12; hon vice-pres Guild of Friends of Bristol Royal Hosp for Children 2010-; present and past examiner to UK and int diploma and degree awarding bodies; sometime memb and chm professional advsy ctees at home and abroad; tstee: Royal Med Benevolent Fund 1998-2004, Education and Resources for Improving Childhood Continence (ERIC) 2006- (vice-chm tstees 2011-); reader and eucharistic min RC Cathedral Church of SS Peter and Paul Clifton 1992-, Master Bristol Guild of Catholic Drs 2006-08, Oblate of Downside 2010-; chm NSPCC Bristol 2011-; ambass: Girlguiding Bristol and S Gloucs 2010-, Alabaré Christian Care and Support Bristol 2010-; chair Redland HS Bristol 2012-(govr 2011-); memb: European Soc for Paediatric Nephrology 1978-, Philosophical Soc Oxford 1990-; membre correspondant de la Sociétié Française de Pédiatrie 1994, Cadet Forces Medal 2011, Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal 2012; County and City of Bristol: High Sheriff 2009-10, Vice Lord-Lt 2012-; Freeman City of London 1982, Liveryman Worshipful Soc of Apothecaries 1984 (memb Ct of Assts 2000-, chm Academic and Resources Ctee 2003-08, memb Examinations Bd 2003-08, court visitor Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine 2008-11, Master 2011-12), Liveryman Worshipful Co of Barbers 2012 (Freeman 2004); FRSM 1979 (pres Sections of Paediatrics 1994-95 and United Services (now Military Medicine) 2001-03, hon ed 1997-2001, a vice-pres 2001-03), FRCP 1983, FRCPEd 1985, FRCPI 1995 (fell Faculty of Paediatrics 1989), FRCPCH 1997, Hon FSLCPaed 2002; Commander of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem 2013

Dr T L Chambers, OBE, JP, FRCP's Publications

Books and Publications
Fluid Therapy in Childhood (1987), Clinical Paediatric Nephrology (chapter, 1986 and 1994), author of contribs to scientific and lay literature

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