Professor Sir Anthony Newman Taylor

Biography

Professor Sir Anthony Newman Taylor is currently the Chairman of the Independent Medical Expert Group (IMEG) of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS). He is Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London and is currently Head of Research and Development at NHLI, a Trustee of the Rayne Foundation, Chairman of the Colt Foundation and a Non-Executive Director of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

He was Principal of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College between 2010 and 2012, Deputy Principal from 2008 to 2010 and Head of National Heart and Lung Institute from 2006 to 2008

He was consultant physician at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust from 1977 until 2010, where for several years he was Deputy Chief Executive, Medical Director and Director of Research. Between 2006 and 2012 he was a Non-Executive Director at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.

He was Chairman of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC), an expert advisory group to the Department for Work and Pensions between 1996 and 2008, and a member between 1982 and 1996. Between 1984 and 2010 he was Consultant Adviser in Chest Medicine to RAF and since 2010 has been a member of the Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies Advisory Board.

Between 1998 and 2009 he was Chairman of CORDA, Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke. Since 2008 he has been a member of the Bevan Commission, an independent advisory group to Minister of Health, Wales.

He was adviser to minister of health, India, on the long term consequences of methyl isocyanate exposure to population of Bhopal in 1985 and advisor to Department of Health, Valencia, on an epidemic of lung disease in textile spray workers in 1994.

He was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2008 for public service and received the Institute of Occupational Health and Safety Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.

His research interests have included the occupational and environmental causes of respiratory disease, the determinants of childhood allergy and asthma and immunogenetic-environmental interactions in occupational asthma. He is the author of chapters in many medical textbooks, including the ‘Oxford textbook of medicine’ and ‘Hunter’s textbook of occupational diseases’.