Executive Chair, The Fleming Centre Initiative
Professor Lord Ara Darzi of Denham is Co-Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery. He serves as a Consultant Surgeon at Imperial College NHS Trust and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. Professor Darzi also chairs the NHS Accelerated Access Collaborative and is Executive Chair of both the World Innovation Summit for Health and the Pre-emptive Health & Medicine Initiative at Flagship Pioneering.
In his role as Executive Chair of the Fleming Centre Initiative—a partnership between Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London—Professor Darzi is spearheading The Fleming Initiative, aimed at leading a global movement to combat antimicrobial resistance.
Professor Darzi heads a diverse academic and policy research team, with over 1,500 peer-reviewed publications to his name. Most recently, he led the Independent Review of the NHS, commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.
Professor Darzi was knighted in 2002 and introduced as Lord Darzi of Denham to the House of Lords in 2007, where he served as Minister for Health. He was appointed to His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in 2009 and awarded the prestigious Order of Merit in 2016.
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