Commentary: Professor Harry Keen, clinician, epidemiologist, diabetologist, basic scientist and defender of the UK National Health Service
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Commentary: professor Harry Keen, clinician, epidemiologist, diabetologist, basic scientist and defender of the UK National Health Service.
Harry Keen is arguably the grandfather of diabetes epidemiology, establishing himself at a time when neither specialty was regarded as either interesting or important. He was born in 1925 and qualified in medicine from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School in 1948, shortly before the inauguration of the National Health Service, for which he acquired and retained a strong loyalty. After house jobs a...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0300-5771,1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyt254