Thomas Meade
Professor Thomas Wilson Meade (born 1936), also known as Tom, is a British epidemiologist. Meade underwent medical training at Christ Church, Oxford, and afterwards at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1960. In 1970, after a period studying at the Schieffelin Leprosy Research Sanatorium in South India, he became Director of the Medical Research Council's Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit. He retired from there in 2001, and became Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, investigating cardiovascular disease. He held Honorary Consultant positions in Epidemiology at St Bartholomew's, and at Northwick  Park Hospital. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1994 Birthday Honours "For services to Medicine and to Scienece", elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 and received the Balzan Prize for epidemiology in 1997. His son, Sir Richard Meade, was appointed a High Court judge in 2020.