Dr Diana Walford, CBE

Career: house surgn Liverpool Royal Infirmary March-Aug 1969 (house physician 1968-69); SHO: St Mary's Hosp 1969-70, Northwick Park Hosp 1970-71; sr registrar rotation 1972-75, N London Blood Transfusion Centre MRC res fell and hon sr registrar Clinical Res Centre Northwick Park Hosp 1975-76, hon conslt haematologist Central Middx Hosp 1977-87; Dept of Health: sr med offr Medicines Div 1976-79, princ med offr Sci Servs Equipment Building Div 1979-83, sr princ med offr and under sec Med Manpower and Educn Div 1983-86, sabbatical LSHTM 1986-87, sr princ med offr and under sec Int Health Microbiology of Food and Water and Communicable Disease Div 1987-89, dep chief med offr and med dir NHS Mgmnt Exec 1989-92, dir Public Health Laboratory Service 1993-2002, princ Mansfield Coll Oxford 2002-11, pro-vice-chllr Univ of Oxford 2010-11; contrib to various med books and jls; govr Ditchley Fndn 2001-, tstee Sue Ryder Care 2008-, dep chm Cncl London Sch of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 2010-, non-exec dir UCLH NHS Fndn Tst 2011-; memb State Honours Ctee 2010-; MA (by incorporation) Univ of Oxford 2002; FRSM 1972, FRCPath 1986 (MRCPath 1974), FRCP 1990 (MRCP 1972), FFPHM 1994 (MFPHM 1989), FRSA 2002