Postgraduate Specialty Schools
Dr Tony Arnold, Yorkshire Deanery Postgraduate School of Medicine.
'Dr A (Tony) G Arnold was appointed as Head of the Yorkshire School of Postgraduate Medicine in early 2007, the appointment panel of Royal College of Physicians, Deanery and SHA representatives demonstrating the responsibilities to all of these parties. In addition, the appointment is as Associate Dean to the Yorkshire Deanery, on the basis of part-time secondment from his employing trust (Hull and East Yorkshire) - in his base-hospitals he continues to function as a Consultant Physician in Respiratory and General Medicine, a post he has held since 1984. Thus he continues with regular GIM acute admission responsibilities. His main area of research and clinical expertise has been in pneumothorax and pleural diseases, with numerous educational and training roles within the Yorkshire Deanery, the University of Hull, the Royal College of Physicians and the British Thoracic Society. These have included the posts of Regional Adviser in Medicine, and Programme Director for Respiratory Medicine, and later for General Medicine.
Outside of Medicine he has continued to actively enjoy sports (running, squash, ski-ing and golf) despite the handicap of an ageing and injury-prone physique (or lack of one!), and is particularly proud of his family, especially twin grand-children (unfortunately living in far-away Athens). He originated from Norfolk, qualified from Manchester University Medical School, and then occupied training posts in Manchester, Oxford and Leeds, before appointment to Hull (where he is now the senior physician).
The School website can be found at: www.yorkshiredeanery.com/medicine