David Barker (epidemiologist)

David James Purslove Barker (29 June 1938 – 27 August 2013) was an English physician and epidemiologist and originator of the Barker Hypothesis that fetal and early infant conditions have a permanent conditioning effect on the body's metabolism and chronic conditions later in life.[1][2][3] He won the GlaxoSmithKline Prize in 1994 for this work.

Barker was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998 and was appointed a CBE in 2006.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Cooper C (2013) David Barker 1938–2013, Nature 502(7471), 304.
  2. ↑ Pincock S (2013) David Barker, The Lancet 382(9899), 1170.
  3. 1 2 Cooper C (2013) David Barker Obituary, The Guardian Wednesday 11 September 2013.
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