Unravelling the Double Helix

Gareth Williams MD ScD FRCP FRCPE is an Emeritus Professor and former Dean of Medicine at the University of Bristol. He graduated from Cambridge, trained in London and Geneva and specialised in diabetes and obesity, building up an internationally recognised research group in Liverpool. He has published over 200 papers on diabetes, obesity and neuroendocrinology, and edited and contributed to 20 medical textbooks including the prize-winning Textbook of Diabetes and the chapter on diabetes for the Oxford Textbook of Medicine. Since retiring, he has written books for general readers about the history of medicine and science.

The Sydenham Lecture was named in honour of Thomas Sydenham, the great 17th-century clinician who was known throughout Europe as the “English Hippocrates”.