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• Comment: You have written his resume, but not said nor cited why he is notable. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 13:47, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

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Professor Tim Orchard is a consultant physician and gastroenterologist who has been chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust since 2018..

Early life

Orchard was born at Charing Cross Hospital at the former site on the Strand. Both his parents were doctors and trained at the old Charing Cross Hospital. His farher was a registrar and senior registrar at Charing Cross Hospital moving with the hospital from the Strand to Hammersmith in 1972.

Orchard was educated at Trinity School, an independent boys' school in Croydon. He undertook his undergraduate medical degree at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. He completed his clinical training at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School and was a research fellow at the University of Oxford in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Career

Orchard joined Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as a registrar in 2000. He was later medical director and divisional director for medicine and integrated care. Orchard was appointed as the chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare in June 2018.

Orcahard is renowned for his work in the field of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and has been the chair of the IBD section of the British Society of Gastroenterology and a national representative on the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation.

Orchard is also Professor of gastroenterology at Imperial College London and is renowned for his ongoing research and teaching in the field of inflammatory bowel disease

He has a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy and, in 2000, was honoured with the Ralph Noble Prize by the University of Cambridge.

He was also chair of The Shelford Group in 2023, a collaboration between ten of the largest teaching and research NHS hospital trusts in England.