Head of Department - Professor Steve Bloom

• MB BChir Cambridge University 1967
• MA Cambridge University 1968
• FRCP Royal College Phys Lond 1978
• MD Cambridge University 1979
• DSc London University 1982
• FRCPath Royal College of Pathologists 1993
• FMedSci Academy of Medical Scientists 1997

• Sept 1967 - March 1968: Gastroenterology House Physician, The Middx Hospital.
• March 1968 - Sept 1968: Cardiology House Physician, The Middlesex Hospital.
• Sept 1968 - March 1969: House Surgeon, Mount Vernon Hospital.
• March 1969 - July 1969: Casualty Medical Officer, The Middlesex Hospital.
• July 1969 - Jan 1970: Endocrinology House Physician, Hammersmith Hospital.
• Jan 1970 - Dec 1970: Leverhulme Research Scholar, The Institute of Clinical Research, The Middlesex Hospital.
• Dec 1970 - Nov 1972: Medical Unit Registrar, The Middlesex Hospital.
• Nov 1972 - Oct 1974: MRC Clinical Research Fellow, The Institute of Clinical Research, The Middlesex Hospital.
• Oct 1974 - Nov 1978: Senior Lecturer (Consultant Physician) The Royal Postgraduate Medical School (RPMS), Hammersmith Hospital.
• Nov 1978 - July 1982: Reader in Medicine, RPMS.
• October 1984 to 1997: Deputy Director, Department of Medicine, RPMS.
• Sept 1991 - Aug 1996: Chairman Higher Degrees Committee, RPMS.
• Sept 1995 - Aug 1997: Chairman Academic Board, RPMS

• From August 1982 - Professor of Medicine (Consultant Physician), Imperial College Faculty of Medicine and Hammersmith Hospital.
• From August 1982 - Director of Endocrinology, Hammersmith Hospitals Trust (HHT).
• From October 1994 - Director Chemical Pathology, (HHT).
• From Sept 1996 - Clinical Director Pathology & Therapy Services, (HHT).
• From August 1997 - Chairman, Division of Investigative Science, Imperial College.

Clinical/reseach interests: Gut hormones, carbohydrate metabolism, hypothalamic control mechanisms and regulation of cell growth. The department focuses on intercellular regulatory systems and the way in which they are disturbed in human disease, paying particular attention to reproductive dysfunction, the effects of stress, mechanisms regulating appetite, metabolism and diabetes mellitus.