Andrew Elder
Andrew Elder is a consultant physician in acute medicine for older people, and former Medical Director of MRCP. He is President of the Royal College of Physicians of EdinburghBiography
Andrew Elder qualified in medicine in 1982 from the University of Edinburgh.
He was Medical Director of MRCP from 2013 - 2018. Two other Medical Directors of MRCP, Dame Jane Dacre and Dr Neil Dewhurst, have become College Presidents, the former for the Royal College of Physicians of London, and the latter for the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
He is a visiting professor at Stanford University Medical School on the Stanford 25 Program in Bedside Medicine
In 2015 he was appointed Honorary Professor at University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
In 2018 he became a CASBS Fellow with the Presence Center at Stanford University exploring the increasing prevalence of frailty.
In March 2020 he took office as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, resigning on the 29 May 2020.
