2016.02.07 卡罗尔-布莱克教授

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Kirsty Young's castaway is Professor Dame Carol Black.

She is Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, and is a special adviser to the Department of Health and Public Health England. She is also Chair of the Board of the Nuffield Trust, the health policy think tank.

She read History at Bristol University before beginning her medical career with encouragement from Dame Cecily Saunders, the founder of the hospice movement. She was Head of Rheumatology at London's Royal Free Hospital from 1989-1994, and was Medical Director of the hospital between 1995 and 2002. She's an international expert on scleroderma, a skin and tissue auto-immune disease, and is the second woman to become President of the Royal College of Physicians.

She was made a Dame in 2005 for her services to Medicine.



卡罗尔-布莱克教授

她是剑桥大学纽汉姆学院的院长，也是卫生部和英格兰公共卫生局的特别顾问。她也是卫生政策智囊团纳菲尔德信托的董事会主席。

她在布里斯托尔大学读历史，然后在临终关怀运动创始人塞西莉-桑德斯夫人的鼓励下开始了她的医学生涯。1989-1994年，她是伦敦皇家自由医院的风湿病学负责人，1995-2002年，她是该医院的医务主任。她是硬皮病（一种皮肤和组织的自身免疫性疾病）方面的国际专家，也是第二位成为皇家医学院院长的女性。

由于她对医学的贡献，她在2005年被授予贵妇人称号。