Peter Rubin

Who is Peter Rubin?

Sir Peter Charles Rubin is the current Chair of the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom, replacing Professor Sir Graeme Catto on 20 April 2009.

A consultant physician and professor of therapeutics at Nottingham University since 1987, he chaired a number of committees devoted to education, such as the GMC's Education Committee from 2005 to 2008 and the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board in the same years. He has also served as a board member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England and co-chaired one of their committees that recommended the establishment of a new dental school in the South West of the country. Rubin has also served as chairman of several Medical Research Council committees investigating drug research in pregnancy. Rubin was the first member of his family to attend university.

Previously he had served as the dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Nottingham University. During his time as dean he helped to develop both the university's Graduate Entry Medical School, which opened in 2004, and the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, which opened in 2006 as the first new veterinary school in the UK for more than half a century. He was knighted in the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours. Despite his responsibilities, he continues to work as a practising doctor in Nottingham. He has an interest in medical problems that may occur in pregnancy.